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Research Methods: Planning Effective Data Collection and Ethical Strategies, Slides of Research Methodology

Guidance for planning effective data collection in research, focusing on strategies to ensure reliability and validity, as well as minimizing ethical issues when using participants. It includes examples and activities for experiment design, sampling methods, and identifying independent and dependent variables.

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RESEARCH METHODS
Planning your own research part 2
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Work together effectively to collect reliable and valid data
for your planned study
Plan and employ strategies to minimise ethical issues when
using participants (C - apply)
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RESEARCH METHODS

Planning your own research part 2

BATs

Work together effectively to collect reliable and valid data

for your planned study

Plan and employ strategies to minimise ethical issues when

using participants (C - apply)

Celebration Eve

ICT

booked p

OVER TO YOU...!

Make sure your plan and any materials you need are ready Remember to ask permission before disrupting a lesson How will you make sure you work ethically? How do you know you are collecting reliable and valid data? How will you record the data? Everyone needs a table!! BATs Work together effectively to collect reliable and valid data for your planned study Plan and employ strategies to minimise ethical issues when using participants (C - apply)

SJ,

Book and

planning sheet

will help

IN ICT

Put data in a neat table and continue with your presentation prep BATs Work together effectively to collect reliable and valid data for your planned study Plan and employ strategies to minimise ethical issues when using participants (C - apply)

PLENARY

In your group discuss 2 things that went well today Now discuss 2 things that could have been done more effectively and think of a solution. Share with another group - Did you have the same difficulties? BATs Work together effectively to collect reliable and valid data for your planned study Plan and employ strategies to minimise ethical issues when using participants (C - apply)

did you

achieve these

today?

Null Hypothesis A prediction that the independent variable will have no effect on the dependent variable

  • (^) Example; “participants will not gain weight if they eat their own body weight in chocolate”

Write a Null Hypothesis for each of these

  • (^) A study to find out if girls watch more TV than boys.
  • (^) A study to investigate whether lack of sleep affects schoolwork
  • (^) A study to find out if people remember the words that appear earlier on the list rather than those that appear later.
  • (^) A study that looks at whether Hamsters are more intelligent than budgies.
  • (^) A study that looks at whether owning a computer affects a students a grades

Choosing Participants

Researchers can’t possibly look at EVERYONE so they select a SAMPLE of people that will REPRESENT the POPULATION they want to study (for example; students under 15, obese Men, mothers......)

Sampling Methods/techniques Opportunity Sampling Sample = who is available & willing Random Sampling Sample = every member of target population has equal chance of being chosen Stratified Sampling Sample= made up of sub- groups representing each strata of target population Systematic Sampling Sample = members of target population chosen by a system e.g. every 5 th person on list

CONDITION(S)

  • (^) An experiment is usually organised so there are two trials (do the experiment twice) , after which the performances (how well the participants did) are compared. These are the conditions of the experiment.
  • (^) Example; Researchers want to find out the effects of studying with a Television on The conditions are; the TV on and the TV off

Experiment Design Independent Groups

  • Different participants take part in each ‘condition’ of the study,
  • e.g. one group studies with TV on, one group without Repeated Measures
  • (one group) The same participants take part in two different conditions,
  • e.g. studying with TV on, and one without TV on Matched Pairs
  • Participants are matched (e.g. two students with similar scores on earlier tests) and one takes part in each condition (TV on & TV off)