Paper 2 Practical studies

Question 1

what is the aim of our child practical

Answer 1

to compare the differences in the positive experience rating of childcare of children aged 0-24 months and 25 months to 4 years, as reported by parents.

Question 2

what was our sampling method for our child practical

Answer 2

we used a volunteer sample, where we emailed all the parents of the preschool in the Kingswood community asking for participation

Question 3

what was the procedure for our child practical

Answer 3

• once we obtained our volunteer sample, we send round a 5 Q questionnaire using survey monkey which were all closed.
• we used likhert or Y/N questions to lead to numerical data. for example, on a scale of 1-5 how would you rate the experience of your child.

Question 4

what were the results of our child practical

Answer 4

• more variation in positive experiences among 0-24 months
• 25 months to 4 years had the most top rated scores of 8

Question 5

what is the aim of our clinical practical

Answer 5

to investigate whether there is a difference in the language used by broadsheet and tabloid newspapers

Question 6

what newspapers did we use for our clinical practical

Answer 6

for broadsheet we used the telegraph
for tabloid we used the sun
from the years 2021 to 2023

Question 7

what was the procedure of our clinical practical

Answer 7

• we familiarised ourselves with the articles by reading through them and picking out key words to fit into negative and neural language.
  -we then chose the number of articles we will use in each newspaper, 6.
• types of negative words were: butchered, nightmare.
• neutral words were: serious and crisis

Question 8

what were the results of our clinical practical

Answer 8

there were more negative words in the tabloid with 4 negative articles and 3 for the broadsheet

Question 9

what was the test we did for our practical

Answer 9

chi squared and our critical value was 2.71