MiC - experiments
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- Created on: 06-04-22 13:45
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- Methods in context - experiments
- Practical
- Access to schools and students/parents/teacher
- Cost
- Ethical
- Consent from students and parents
- Vulnerability. Of students
- Anonymity and privacy
- Generalisable?
- No, difficult to generalise findings due to unnatural scenario and small sample
- Examples
- Harvey and Slatin
- Lab: teachers views of students based on class
- Charkin et al
- Lab: teacher expectations influenced by ability
- Mason
- Lab: are tpositive or negative expectations more influential on achievement
- Harvey and Slatin
- reliability
- Standardised and scientific procedure means that’s it can easily be replicated by another.
- Validity
- Poor validity due to unfamiliar situation - low ecological validity (only LE)
- Demand characteristics and Hawthorne effect in play dice to knowing they are ina study.
- Theoretical perspective
- Positivists favour experiments due to their high control and scientific nature
- representativeness
- Not representativedue to small samples which can be studied
- Practical
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