MiC questionnaires
- Created by: maddieecarr
- Created on: 06-04-22 13:54
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- Methods in context - questionnaires
- Reliability
- Due to standardised nature it is reliable as it can be easily repeated
- Representativeness
- Unlikely to be representativedue to middle class over-responding and providing a biased view
- Ethical
- Need too make sure there is informed consent
- Fairly ethical RM
- Keep confidentialityespecially if topic is socially sensitive
- Theoretical perspective
- Positivist method if questions are closed - quantitative data
- Interpretivist if open questions are used - qualitative data
- Validity
- Unlikely to be highly valid due to social desirability
- Distancing from researcher may cause lying
- Closed questions may lead to participants giving a “best fit”
- Open questions valid as they can give detail
- Examples
- Rutter
- study of innner city schools found they are more likely to have disadvantaged pupils
- Link between class size, behaviour and achievement
- Minority and EAL student more likely to suffer material deprivation
- Rutter
- Practial
- Cheap and easy
- Must be engaging
- does not need a trained researcher
- Gatekeepers may prevent access
- generalisable?
- Possible due to large samples that can be accessed
- Reliability
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