Observational design
- Created by: zoe_chetty
- Created on: 04-04-19 14:07
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Issues in the design of observations
Structured and unstructured
- One key influence on the design of any observation is how the researcher intends to record their data
- The researcher may simply want to write down everything they see, this is unstructured
- Unstructured produces accounts of behaviour that are rich in detail
- This method may be appropriate when observations are small in scale and involve few ppts
- Often there may be too much going on in a sigle observation for the researcher to record it all, therefore it is necessary to simplify the target beh that will become the main focus of the investigation
- Structured obs allow the researcher to quantify their observations using a pre-determined list of behs and sampling methods
+Structured obs use beh categories, making recording of data easier and more systematic
+Analysis of quantitative data is more straightforward
-Unstructured obs produce qualitative data…
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