Questionnaires in context
- Created by: honor.barnwell
- Created on: 03-05-24 11:45
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- Questionnaire in context
- Practical issues
- useful for gathering larger quantities of basic info quickly + cheaply from large numbers of pupils, teachers or educational establishment
- Researchers use them to correlate factors such as achievement, attendance and behaviour with variables such as skl size
- Sampling frames
- Skls are a good source of ready-made sampling frames
- they keep lists of pupils and staff, providing sampling frames from which to draw a representative sample
- Skls also have a ready made opportunity samples of pupils and teachers (class lists)
- Skls are a good source of ready-made sampling frames
- Response rate
- Response rates are often low but skls can be higher than in other areas
- Teachers + pupils may be under pressure to coorperate by head teacher
- Researching pupils
- children generally have a shorter attention span than adults and so a short questionnaire can be more affective than lengthy interviews
- However, this limits the amount of info that can be gathered.
- children generally have a shorter attention span than adults and so a short questionnaire can be more affective than lengthy interviews
- operationalising concepts
- Turning abstract ideas into a measurable form is difficult when researching pupils
- Deferred gratification
- Young people have a poorer grasp of abstract ideas, so are less likely to understand some of the researcher's questions
- Turning abstract ideas into a measurable form is difficult when researching pupils
- Samples
- Skls may not keep lists that reflect the researcher's interests
- e.g. they may want to investigate ethnicity but the skl may not keep lists sorted by ethnic origin
- Skls may not keep lists that reflect the researcher's interests
- Validity
- Life experiences of children are narrow, and so may not actually know the answers to the questions, therefore questionnaires being of little value
- Practical issues
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