surveys and sampling
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- Created on: 16-04-19 13:40
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- Surveys and sampling
- longitudinal study
- a study in which information is collected over regular intervals over an extended period of time
- national child development study since 1968
- JWD douglas the home and school
- 16 years, questionnaires, IQ tests to see how achievement was affected by social factors
- aims
- identifies what the researcher intends to study and what they hope to achieve
- open ended
- identifies what the researcher intends to study and what they hope to achieve
- hypotheses
- untested explanation expressed as a statement. provide evidence to prove/ disprove it
- operationalisation
- defining a behaviour to allow it to be measured
- pilot study
- small scale version that tests resources, instructions, sample so that any changes can be made
- triangulation
- using two or more research methods so they compliment eachother
- longitudinal study
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