Questionnaires [Non Context] Flashcards
What are the cost advantages? 1)
No need to recruit interviewers
- Return Q themselves
What are the cost advantages? 2)
Widespread geographically online
- Quick, cheap
What are the cost disadvantages?
Necessary to have incentivise (prize)
- Persuade
What are the time disadvantages?
Short and brief questions
- Limits data
What are the access disadvantages?
Postal
- Unsure if it has reached them
What are the ethical advantages?
No harm to participant/ pressure of consent
What are the ethical disadvantages?
Postal
- Unaware if there’s harm to participant
Informed Consent
- Have the right to say no
What is the advantage of reliability? 1)
Online and postal
- Researcher not present at all
What is the advantage of reliability? 2)
Easily replicated w/ identical questionnaires
- Online easier than 1 on 1
What is the example study?
Connor + Dewson, 4000 questionnaire for 14+ education
W/C influence university
What is the advantage of representativeness?
Geographical widespread
- Online + Postal were large scale
Who favours Questionnaires?
Positivist
Why do Positivists favour Questionnaires?
They produce numeric and large data
What is an example of questionnaire example?
Researchers able to hypothesise that low achievers come from large families
Why don’t interpretivists like questionnaires?
They prefer qualitative data
- Pupils not just puppets to external factors
How can the low response rate be challenged?
Follow up questions
Why may they not be as representative?
Busy people less likely to fill in
More likely to be unemployed, socially isolated
Who are more likely to respond to some topics?
People with stronger views more than those with no knowledge about it
What do researchers have to be careful about, vocab wise?
Elaborated, well educated bias vocab
