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After data needs have been identified, attention must focus on the best ways to collect that information. It is likely that some of the needed information has already been collected by the program or an available source. Initially, the interviewer should determine what is already collected, its availability, and its adequacy. Subsequently, the interviewer must decide what alternate techniques would best be used to collect any additional information needed. Options range from secondary data collection (using existing records), monitoring systems, surveys, questionnaires, and interviews to observational techniques. Let us look at the four techniques that are being used extensively. 1) Interviewing Interviews have been used extensively for data collection across all the discipline of the social sciences and in educational research. It is a systematic collection of verbal information. It consists in asking about end-users requirements to get information with prepared questions asked by the interviewer.
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