Категории: Все - observation - strengths - experiments - weaknesses

по Elias Lundheim 10 лет назад

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experimental and non-experimental methods

Research methodologies can be broadly categorized into experimental and non-experimental methods. Non-experimental methods, often qualitative, include observation, surveys, and interviews.

experimental and non-experimental methods

Surveys are used when you want to question a large group of people without high cost in a short time.

Difficult to document
May be difficult to make ethical
Multiple participants interacting
Difficult to analyze
Social desirability bias
Gain personal information
More relaxed
Easy to analyze

Field experiments are conducted when you want to have a good ecological value. That is, when you want to make sure that people would actually react a certain way. (Otherwise, it is usually better to do a laboratory experiment) (You could also say that it is when the researcher comes to you, and not the other way around)

Natural experiments occur, they are usually conducted if possible.

Difficult to make good questions
Response bias
Often easy to compare and read information
Cost and time effective
Large domain

Interviews are like surveys, but a lot more detailed and in depth, but with fewer participants.

Case studies are a lot like natural experiments only that the participant is questioned more than made to go through experiments, and listened to rather than observed.

Low ecological value
Easy to replicate
A lot of controll
Finds cause and effect

Laboratory experiments should be used when you want to find the cause and effect relationship.

Difficult to replicate
Little control
Good ecological value

Observation is basically what you do in field experiments. These two overlap all the time and are difficult to separate.

Weaknesses

Difficult to extract useful, reliable information
No control
Researcher bias

Strenghts

No demand characteristics

Examples of studies

Loftus and Palmer's car crash study.
Milgram’s experiment on obedience
Breuer & Freud - Anna O
Harlow - Phineas Gage
Jacobsen, Alice Juel Ethnography and Education
Grunschel, Carola; Patrzek, Justine; Fries, Stefan European Journal of Psychology of Education
The Tiffany Field experiment
Hodges and Tizard's attachment research

Field experiments

The Piliavin and Rodin Subway Experiment
Holfing’s hospital study on obedience

Surveys

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Subtopic

Observations

Tulis, Maria Teaching and Teacher Education
Pulinkala, Ivan Research in Dance Education

Unstructured interview

Semistructured interview

Structured interview

Strengths and weaknesses

Weaknsesses

Very difficult to replicate

Strengths

High ecological value
Often new research

Experimental and non-experimental methods

Experimental methods

Natural experiments
Laboratory experiments
Field experiment

Non experimental methods (Qualitative research)

Survey
Case studies
Observation
Interviews