The ‘applied methods*’ question appears in paper 1 of the AQA’s Education with Theory and Methods exam (paper 7192/1). This […]
A Likert* scale is a multiple-indicator or multiple-item measure of a set of attitudes relating to a particular area. The
Validity refers to the extent to which an indicator (or set of indicators) really measure the concept under investigation. This post outlines five ways in which sociologists and psychologists might determine how valid their indicators are: face validity, concurrent validity, convergent validity, construct validity, and predictive validity.
Just a look back at what some of the official statistics and opinion polls told us about life in Britain
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An indicator provides a measure of a concept, and is typically used in quantitative research. It is useful to distinguish
New research suggests that women make better surgeons than men. For the study, a team at the University of Toronto
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In 1999 Sugata Mitra put a computer connected to the internet in a hole in the wall in a slum