Further research methods
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- Created on: 03-05-17 14:17
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- Further Research Methods
- Questionnaire
- Survey method used to collect large amounts of data from a large spread of people
- -Can find out about behavior and attitudes quickly -ethical because people are fully aware that they are filling in the questionnaire
- -no way of checking that answers given are true
- Closed questions
- A question where the possible responses are often fixed (yes, no)
- Provides researcher with data that's easy to collate, it's also a faster method.
- -Little detail in answers given -respondents can't explain why they chose their answer
- A question where the possible responses are often fixed (yes, no)
- Open questions
- A question where the person answering can give any response they like
- -Provide researcher with lots of information
- -Very hard to collate -Takes longer to carry out
- A question where the person answering can give any response they like
- Survey method used to collect large amounts of data from a large spread of people
- Interviews
- method of which a researcher collects data by asking questions directly
- Structured interviews
- an interview in which all the questions are pre-set, given in a fixed order and every interviewee is asked the same questions
- -Data can be collated and analysed quickly
- -lack detail -may be frustrating when interviewer wants to ask more questions
- an interview in which all the questions are pre-set, given in a fixed order and every interviewee is asked the same questions
- Unstructured interviews
- An interview in which only the first question is set and all other questions are determined by the answers of the interviewee
- -detailed data -high ecological validity
- -researcher cannot be sure that the interviewee is telling the truth so data may not be accurate
- An interview in which only the first question is set and all other questions are determined by the answers of the interviewee
- Observational method
- Questionnaire
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