Year 10 Research methods

Data in numerical form would be known as

• Quantitative

• Qualitative

• Descriptive

• Numerical

Research that uses descriptive data and is written in text form would be called?

• Quantitative

• Qualitative

• Discriptive

• Formulative

Which of these methods would collect data from a very large sample? The census is an example of this method

• Survey

• Short answer response

• questionnaire

• speeches

A written set of questions that survey participants answer by themselves.

• variable response
• questionnaire
• response coding
• population sample

A statement to be tested is known as?

• hypothesis

• qualitative variable

• questionnaire

• causation

a survey method in which a trained researcher asks questions and records the answers

• interview
• sampling
• questionnaire
• secondary analysis

Information that has already been collected by another researcher or already exists is known as ..................... data

• secondary

• interview

• questionnaire

• primary

Quantitative data is often presented in the form of ..............

• Statistics

• Demographic Information

• Text

• Mathematics

Give one example of an ethical issue social researchers need to consider when conducting social research. 

• Take regular tea breaks 
• Being able to get a large sample size
• Gain informed consent
• Make sure the study is reliable 

Give one advantage of qualitative research 

• You can compare results 
• It is usually high in reliability 
• It is usually high in validity 
• Research sample is representative