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Summary Issues when studying into a school- Research Methods
- Course
- Institution
Acronyms included to help remember P.E.T issues when studying into a school. Concise bullet points.
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Issues when studying schools - methods in contextPractical - TARRS
T- time
- Length of time it takes
A- access
- Difficult to get past gatekeepers , laws that school have to follow they have duty of
care
R- requirement of a funding body
- in the past, government more likely to fund research that will provide quantitative
data opposed to qualitative
R- Research opportunities
- type of methods might not be appropriate when different research opportunities
arises
S- social characteristics of the researcher
- ie. difficult to gain rapport if old white man was interviewing young asian female about
racism for example
Ethical - ICE VC
I- informed consent
- Researcher should obey the rules published by BSA ( ie. the right to refuse to
participate, aware of the relevant parts etc)
C- confidentiality and privacy
- Prevent negative methods, personal information should be kept anonymous
E- effects on research participants
- Researchers should be mindful if they are talking about sensitive topic
V- Vulnerable groups
- Child protection issues in schools, consent of head teachers, parents should be given
before conducting research in schools
C- covert research
- Hidden identity of research, wrong because it is deception in order to gain trust and
information
Theoretical - RRMV
R- representative
- People being studied, are typical cross- section of the group you want to research, it
allows for generalisations to be made if you have a larger sample
R- reliability
- Achieved when researcher does the research again and get the same results
‘replica’, larger the sample more reliable it is
M- methodology
- Positivists use methods that produce quantitative data, they see sociology as a
science, objective date, interpretivists prefer qualitative data, and subjective data
V-Validity
- Degree to which the theory or explanations fits the data that has been produced
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