Method In Context

Question 1

Practical issues

Answer 1

Time and money
Recruitment of funding bodies
Personal skill/characteristics
Subject matter
Research opportunity

Question 2

Ethical issue

Answer 2

Informed consent
Confidentiality/privacy
Harm to ppa
Vulnerable groups
Covert research

Question 3

Theoretical issues

Answer 3

Validity
Reliability
Representative
Positivist/interprevist

Question 4

Researching pupils
Power and status

Answer 4

Less power than adults
School hirerarcl insitution select pupil promote school
Use non formal RM than formal overcome difference
Anti school subculture

Question 5

Researching pupils
Ability/understanding

Answer 5

Limited vocabulary thinking skills
Care in wording gain understanding
Homogeneous group - all diffent age gender class ethnicity match pupil to researcher

Question 6

Researching pupils
Vulnerability/ethical issues

Answer 6

More psychologically/physically vulnerable informed consent
Gatekeepers

Question 7

Researching teachers

Answer 7

Overworked restrict data
Power/status - age experience responsibility
Researcher tress passer
Need cover but reduce status

Question 8

Impression management

Answer 8

Used to being observed put on an act front stage class room back stage staff from harder to access become suspicious

Question 9

Researching class rooms

Answer 9

Less open than other settings eg shops highly controlled eg layout access pupils not accurate reflection what they think and feel impression management peer group gate keepers

Question 10

Researching parents

Answer 10

Important in Ed process
How they bring kids up
Involved eg parents evening
Homogeneous group
Parental permission sensitivity and benefit
Impression management

Question 11

Access to parents

Answer 11

Interaction pupil and parent at home in privet setting few opportunities see if help with hw
Difficult contact and research
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