Research methods quiz

Positivists prefer qualitative data

Structured interviews are expensive and involve specialist training of interviewers

Which of these are types of observation?

what is a hypothesis?

School data on attendance and racist incidents are always accurate sources for research studies

What can be possible weaknesses of structured interviews?

who are most likely to engage in 'impression management' during research?

Which of these is a weakness of questionnaires as a research method?

Which sociologist found that the marketisation of education benefitted middle-class families?

Structured interviews have a higher response rate than questionnaires which tends to make them more representative

Which of the following is not an example of a primary source?

Unstructured interviews take much more time and funding to carry and need interviewers to be highly trained.

Which researchers showed teachers photos and found bias against working class students?

Bernstein found that differences between social classes may mean research questions need to be worded differently

which of the following is not an advantage of unstructured interviews

Cecile Wright observed teachers and found evidence of racism and that some white teachers did not respond well to her

Experiments often involve deception as if participants knew the true aims of a study they would change their behaviour

Which researcher carried out observation research on working class boys and lad culture?

A low questionnaire response rate could create a biased non representative sample

What phrase do you associate with the research of Rosenthal and Jacobson in 1968?

which of these is a weakness of quantitative data?

Which of these are not challenges to conducting interviews of children in school

Which sociologist found that students with greater cultural capital were more likely to do well at GCSE?

Which research method would a positivist avoid?

Questionnaires are reliable as they can be easily repeated by another researcher

What is a potential weakness of field experiments?

However those who do take part may have more free time or be lonely so this could make it an unrepresentative sample

Which of these is a strength of qualitative data?

Why do interpretivists reject questionnaires?

Stephen Ball (1981) found that streaming in schools doesn't lead to polarisation and pupil subcultures.

Who found that various headteachers refused them access for research on pupils' views of teaching?