Posted: April 24th, 2025

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In this discussion, you will need to read several resources, and become familiar with the different instruments to collect data for research purposes. These instruments can be useful to gather information, and usually they produce results that can be summarized, compared, and generalized. As you already might be aware, for project one you will need to collect data to detect the technology needs of your school or place of work. Although we will use only interviews and surveys/questionnaires to gather our data, it is important that you recognize the different types of data collection instruments.

Please read the following resources. In addition, utilize the Galileo database to consult more information about the topic.

Instruments to gather data 

Definitions of data collection instruments

Data gathering tools

Select five different types of instruments/tecniques for data collection (two of them must be interviews and surveys) from the ones mentioned in the readings. Discuss how each of them can be used to gather information, and provide specific examples on how you would utilize them to collect information in your school or place of work.