Data recording, analysis and presentation: Methodological issues

Question 1

Reliability

Answer 1

• consistency of findings
• can test to be used more than once and produce similar results
• do researchers collect data from participants the same way

Question 2

Internal validity

Answer 2

How accurately a piece of research or test is at measuring what it aims to measure

Question 3

External validity

Answer 3

Can the test be genralised to another setting or another sample

Question 4

Population validity

Answer 4

This would be high if a representative sample had been used

Question 5

Ecological validity

Answer 5

Would be high in a field experiment or natural setting