Research methods review

What sort of data do case studies usually produce?

• interval

• secondary

• qualitative

• quantitative

Which approaches tend to use case studies ?

• Biological

• Humanistic

• Learning

• Psychodynamic

• Cognitive

This research method can suffer from low inter rater reliability

• case studies

• content analysis

• survey

• observation

This research method gives details of many aspects of an individuals experience, and is therefore more ______ than a laboratory experiment

A limitation of case studies is that they are not easy to --------- and so we cannot check that findings are reliable

A laboratory experiment measures the effect of the ________ on the dependent variable

Case studies often relay on the researchers own interpretation of what they have seen so may be affected by

• reliability

• objectivity

• subjectivity

• relativity

Measures of _______________ include the mean, media and mode

If a study findings cannot be applied to other participants it is not ....

This type of distribution curve has a similar mean, median and mode

• Normal

• skewed

• positive

• negative