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Define and offer advantages and disadvantages of qualitative and quantitative research methods including laboratory experiments, field experiments, natural experiments, correlations, observations, questionnaires, interviews and case studies. Issues of reliability and ways of ensuring reliability (split-half, test-retest, interrater). Issues of validity (experimental and ecological) and ways of ensuring validity (content, concurrent, construct). Ethical issues relating to research including a lack of informed consent, the use of deception, a lack of the right to withdraw from the investigation, a lack of confidentiality, a failure to protect participants from physical and psychological harm. Define and offer advantages and disadvantages of different sampling methods including opportunity, quota, random, self-selected (volunteer), stratified and systematic. Define and offer advantages and disadvantages, and draw conclusions from the following ways of describing data, including: - Development of a coding system - Mean - Scattergraphs - Content analysis - Median - Bar charts - Categorisation - Mode - Histograms - Range
The subject sits with his or her back to the board. The rest of you call out. Give clues to the terms but don’t say the word.
Scattergraph
Range
Standard deviation
Mode
Bar chart
Ethics
Histogram
Positive correlation
Coding system
Volunteer sample
Case study
Median
Negative correlation
Inter-rater reliability
Qualitative
Field experiment
Right to withdraw
Split Half test
Random sample
Laboratory experiment
Mean
Reliability
Quota sample
Deception
Experimental reliability
Natural experiment
Observation
Informed consent
Opportunity sample
Concurrent validity
Test-Retest
Construct validity
Content validity
Interview
Systematic sample
Ecological validity
Quantitative
Stratified sample
Validity
Questionnaire
Correlation
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