Questionnaires studies

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Created on: 05-05-21 19:43

Which study shows that questionnaires gather data from large amounts of people over a wide geographical area?

Connor and Dewson (2001) posted nearly 4,000 questionnaires to students at 14 higher education institutions around the country in their study of the factors influencing working class students to go to university.

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What study shows that questionnaires often have low response rates?

Hite (1991) sent out 100,000 questionnaires but only 4.5% of them were returned.

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Which interpretivist argues that contact with participants is necessary for validity?

Cicourel (1968) argues that we can only understand someone’s behaviour by viewing the subjects of the study up close and sharing their meanings. The lack of contact means that there is no way to clarify meanings or deal with misunderstandings.

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Which study argues that questionnaires impose the researcher's meanings?

Shipman (1997) argues that questionnaires distort the respondents’ meanings by ‘pruning and bending’ the data to fit into the researcher’s categories when coding answers to open-ended questions to produce quantitative data.

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What study shows that questionnaires gather large amounts of data quickly and cheaply?

Rutter (1979) used questionnaires to gather large amounts of data from 12 inner-London secondary schools, allowing him to correlate achievement, attendance and behaviour with class size and number of staff.

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What study shows that questionnaires produce limited and superficial data?

Rutter (1979) showed correlation between class size and achievement but not an explanation for this.

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