Research
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- Research Methods
- Research
- Study used to collect data using various methods
- Quantitative
- Research
- Methods that generate data in form of statistics
- Data
- Data in numbers or statistics
- Research
- Qualititative
- Data
- Data in opinions and words
- Research
- Methods that generate data in form of words
- Data
- Primary Data
- First-hand information collected by researcher.
- Questionnaires, interviews, participant observation
- First-hand information collected by researcher.
- Secondary Data
- Data previously collected by others
- Diaries, official statistics
- Data previously collected by others
- Experiment
- Scenarios used to conclude explanations for behaviour changes using stimulus.
- Pilot Study
- Trial run before a research to find faults.
- Methods for representativ-e sample
- Random Sample
- Group chosen by chance
- Quota Sample
- Researcher looks for certain number of a group
- Systematic Sample
- Uses a system. E.g. tenth name on a list
- Snowball Sample
- Connection with a person leads to study of others
- Random Sample
- Sample
- Respondents questioned during social research
- Sample Frame
- Population selected for research
- Questions
- Closed
- Respondents are given limited answers e.g. questionnaires
- Open
- Allows respondents to give any answer e.g unstructured inetrview
- Closed
- Research Methods
- Questionnaire
- Disadvantage
- Low response rate
- Invalid if respondents lie
- Unrepresentative
- People may not complete
- Advantages
- Flexible
- Can be done online or by post
- Repeatablity
- Qiuck and cheap
- Flexible
- Disadvantage
- Structured Interview
- Advantage
- Repeatablity
- Open and closed questions
- Disadvantage
- Interview bias
- Lies to shock interviewer
- Advantage
- Unstructured interview
- Advantages
- Developed answers
- High response rate
- Disadvantage
- Interview bias
- Time consuming
- Advantages
- Questionnaire
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- Observation
- Overt
- Researcher openly observes group
- Hawthorn Effect
- Behaviour changes as people know they are being watched
- Hawthorn Effect
- Researcher openly observes group
- Covert
- Researcher secretly observes group
- Overt
- Triangulation
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- Research
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