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methods in context - Coggle Diagram
methods in context
example issues
official statistics
S
schools legally required to collect achievement/attendence
W
not tailored to research topic
secondary data
confidential
can't link back to individual
experiments
S
representitative
reliable
W
lack of informed consent
unethical
questionnaires
S
cheap
time effective
W
no building of rapport
interviews
S
build rapport
W
time consuming
group interviews
S
comfortable w/ peers
W
impression management
anti school subcultures
covert observation
S
no hawthorne effect
W
lack of informed consent
decieving children
overt observation
S
informed consent
W
time consuming
hawthorne effect (they know)
public documents
S
easily accessible
W
not specfic
secondary data
private documents
S
honest
valid
W
not easily accessible
longitudinal study
S
can see changes over time
temporal validity
W
time consuming
high drop out rate
examples of topics of research
truancy (skipping lesson)
sexism
literacy
material deprivation
parental support
bullying
institutional racism
anti-learning subcultures
teacher attitudes
the context
parents
pupils
school
researcher's experience
classroom
teachers
official statistics
strengths
accessible
cost efficient
practicality
useful to make comparisons
large scale data
representitative
ethical
anonymous
confidential
data collected @ regular intervals
all state schools do census every 3 years
weaknesses
difficult to operationalise variables
interpretivism
social construct
ethical
consent of a child
gov may want this for their own needs NOT the researchers
not intended for sociological research
gov definitions may be different
e.g reliance on material factors- FSM + PP
marxists dont like gov
e.g thatcher measured schools success on exam results
won't use OS
impression management
manipulate bullying data
impact marketisation
offers secondary quantitative data
gathered by gov/ official bodies
e.g
league tables
exam results
attendance
e.g
go
gov website
school website
stratify samples
ethnicity
class
gender
educational achievement
experiments
field
S
easily accessible to a group
good for micro studies
repeatable
disconnected from researcher
W
time consuming
expensive
demand characteristics
protection from harm
can't look at wider context
difficulty controlling variables
time away from teacher/learning
field
S
realistic
less expensive than a lab
reliable
looks at broader picture
natural setting
W
time consuming
need fully informed consent
ethical problems
positivist