Data Collection Istruments

Question 1

Prepare a response to each bullet point describing survey research and data collection as they relate to your research question/topic.

• BASED on your Team research topic/case:
• Explain the advantages and disadvantages (why each type of survey would work, or not work) using your topic as the example:
  • In person surveys-door-to-door, stopping people to ask survey questions, etc.Telephone surveys-random calling, targeted calls.
  • Computer-based surveys-can be administered randomly or to a specific audience.
  • Focus group surveys-gathering a targeted group of people and asking specific questions based on their expertise.
  • Describe the purpose of sampling as part of the research process.
  • Identify the types of reliability and validity as they are applied to criminal justice research.
  • Discuss the importance of ensuring that data collection methods and instruments are both reliable and valid.

Question 2

This paper chronologically examines four theoretically divergent psychosocial treatments for schizophrenia, each intended to augment pharmacological treatment. The goal is to familiarize readers with a sample of well-established psychosocial treatments to provide an enhanced perspective on newer and future psychosocial treatments for schizophrenia. Clinical implications and future research directions are discussed. Methodology: Social skills training, cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive remediation, and social cognitive training therapy paradigms were searched and the extant literature is summarized for each, with particular focus on: 1) the rationale for treatment methodology