Transcript Key Research Terms for PY2

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J Griffiths for NGfL Cymru
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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
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 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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