education MIC Flashcards
What is validity?
How the accuracy of the research is effected through social desirability/impression management, language codes
What is access (permission)
Are there issues when gaining access- gatekeepers,limited access,DBS
What is practical
How is the researcher effected by time,availability, personal characteristics etc
What are ethical issues?
informed consent,ppt vulnerability, ethical dilemmas, may discover something harmful, parental consent for minors
What is representiveness?
Sample reflect population? how many people can be studied at once due to method?, or at all?
What are the 5 areas of context that we research?
Pupils, teachers, classrooms, schools,parents
what are pupil issues?
-vulnerability
-status
-ability&maturity
What are issues with teachers?
-characteristics
-busy & overworked
-duty of care over students
-sensitive to criticism
-hawthorne effect
What are issues with classrooms?
-friendship groups
-closed/highly controlled
-peer pressure
What are issues with schools?
-Restricting access
-hawthorne effect
-timetable
“captive population”
What are issues with parents?
-influence education
-physically outside, hard to access
-MC/WC
MC more likely to participate due to parental interest
What is a captive population?
Pupils are forced to be in school- may behave negatively because they don’t want to be there
