are it is time consuming when analyzing the data and it can be expensive when transcribing. The use of informed consent is important regardless of what research method is taking place. For example, in the article, before carrying out semi- structure interview, it shows the researcher had given out informed consent to the schools and approached potential participants to explain the study (Wan & Neihart, 2015). It is acceptable for the researcher to encourage the participants but this should not run the risk of coercing the participants (Matthew & Ross, 2010). Under BERA 's ethical guidelines it is unacceptable to coerce participants as they should have the freedom to choose. Another ethical issue was confidentiality. It is important to …show more content…
For example, in the study ' 'an initial pilot procedure was conducted using 12 female year 7 pupils ' ' (Elliott & Hoyle, 2014, pg 6). This increases reliability, validity and gains some feedback from the respondents based on whether the questionnaire can be easily understood (Cohen,. et al, 2011). In contrast, to interviews this can be difficult to achieve because the researcher asks a slightly different question to each participant according to the flow of discussion and compared to questionnaires, interviews are time-consuming to carry out a trial (Cohen,. et al, 2011). Another benefit is that the researcher can collect a large amount of data in a short amount of time. The evidence is in the article where the researcher hands the questionnaires to the teacher so he can give it to the students, and explains how to administer the questionnaire (Elliot & Hoyle, 2014). This shows the researcher saves time. Compared to interviews, questionnaires are easy to analyze and results can be generalize to get an overview of why girls do not want to participate in physical Education (Elliott & Hoyle, 2014). However, generalization is difficult in interviews because different people have different opinions. One weakness I found in this article was the questionnaire design as the researcher used rating scales. For example, the researcher provided two options which were ' '1= strongly disagree and
The philosophical justification for survey research is cost containment with a large volume of research. It is also one of the most efficient and quick methods to gather large amounts of information. Data analysis can be completed in a short period of time and generalization is better, particularly when the representative sample is of a population. It also helps elimination of bias in result interpretation as subjects have the ability to remain anonymous.
Write a three- to four-page article review in which you discuss methodological issues unique to psychological research and analyze basic
Did you find any research articles on which you could perform a critique? Describe the type of article and add the reference to the article. (2 pts)
A questionnaire is research which involves a number of different questions to gather information from the people who are filling it in. Questionnaires are designed as a way to find out what people are thinking. An advantage of questionnaires is that it is very practical because it is quick to collect information from the people filling out the questionnaire. Another advantage of questionnaires is that the same questions is asked to everyone filling the questionnaire out so easy to sum up. The final advantage to questionnaires is that large information can be collected. There are also some disadvantages to questionnaires which is that there is no way of telling how much though someone who is filling the questionnaire out has put it. Another disadvantage is that the person filling it out may forget what has happened to fill it out so it won’t be reliable. The final disadvantage to questionnaires is that there is no way to tell how truthful a respondent is being.
The article although it was extremely well written and had extremely strong points there was a few weaknesses for
As you stated the authors mention that caution should be utilized when the results are interpreted. The research methods of questionnaires and self-reporting,
The review of this is objective there are no personal biases given in this study as they asked the participants the questions and documented their answers on the survey tool that was standardized for each person’s responses. The review was very detailed and followed the proper qualitative process. There are points in the article where the writers do paraphrase the statements that were found in previous
This article was poorly structured and it wasn’t organized well. It didn’t look like any research went into. Similarly, there was no introduction
I believe that this research article was very well put together, meaning that it was very well organized, all the citations where current and used appropriately, and it was in a logic order. The research only cited supporting studies.
This study also seemed to repeat information a lot, giving the readers the same prospective that was read on the very first few pages. However, this study do not have a lot of weaknesses because majority of the information said seemed to be very legit. On the other hand, if I were to be doing this study I would have probably made it more enjoyable to read. I honestly think that giving a definite story to go along with the background and statistics would have made this article the best thing to read. Another thing that I would have done to improve the study would be to take some of the words out because at times it was a bit too
The framework that will be used to critique the above research paper is Coughlan, Cronin and Ryan (2007). This framework has been chosen because it is easy to follow and is routinely used to critique quantitative research studies (Fothergill and Lipp, 2014).
At the same , I found a lot of advantages of doing a questionnaire survey.For example, practical and large amounts of information can be collected from a large number of people in a short period of time and in a relatively cost effective way, ant it can be carried out by the researcher or by any number of people with limited effect to its validity and reliability.
The first weakness is using secondary analysis. Using secondary analysis involves questioning the validity of the data (Maxfield & Babbie, 2012). There is no certainty the data that was collected will be appropriate for the research. There could be certain items that the author may wish was operationalized differently. Secondary analysis could be a potential problem when deciding whether or not it provides valid measures of the variables needed to be analyzed (Maxfield & Babbie, 2012).
5. What are the main conclusions reached by the authors? Do you feel these conclusions answer the research question(s)? Make sure you identify/state the research question of the study in your answer. (2 pts)
Give at least one point of evaluation about this study and explain why this is a criticism.