Test your understanding of each chapter by taking the quiz below. Click anywhere on the question to reveal the answer. Good luck!
1. Which are parts of the research cycle?
- Design research
- Review the literature
- Analyse data
- All of the above
2. The Russian Doll test is used when you
- Want to choose an area of interest for your research
- Want to narrow down the focus of your research
- Want to check that your research is ethical
- Are checking that you have chosen the right way to obtain your sample
3. Which is not an example of qualitative research?
- Using in depth interviews to obtain practitioners’ perspectives on the role play area
- An analysis of two children’s mark making over a period of a year to observe the development of emergent writing
- A questionnaire survey of 100 parents to identify the relationship between total minutes of ‘screen time’ per day at home and three-year-olds’ language development
- A case study of five families looking at their experiences of looking after a child with severe disabilities
4. Which is not an example of non probability sampling?
- Opportunity or convenience sampling
- Stratified sampling
- Snowball sampling
- Purposive sampling
5. Which statement is correct?
- A test is valid if it gives the same result when administered to the same person on two different occasions
- A test is valid if two different researchers will get the same result when the test is administered to the same person
- A test is valid when it has internal consistency
- A test is valid if it measures what it sets out to measure