After I have asked 50 parents from secondary school and primary school, I would collect all my data and put them in a graph and both of data will be compared to each other and see what kind of physical punishment does parents use and what age group is more effected and on average we can see which kind of punishment is used more often and what gender uses it more often. After a year I could re do the questionnaires and check the reliability of my resources.
The strength of my self report is that parents don't have to put their names down , this means they will feel more confident while answering knowing that nothing bad will happened if they answer it. Also this is a quick way to collect a data and easy way as well.
The disadvantage of my self report is People may lie or skew their answers to make themselves look better. The person may not be able to give an accurate response due to cognitive biases, poor memory, etc.
4 B ; Describe and evaluate one way in which the researcher could measure concentration in this investigation.
For this investigation the field experiment could be used. As the kids will be in their own natural environment and they will more likely to act naturally like they do in every day life. To test their concentration to play a slide show with different kind of pictures and words and kids would need to remember and write down what they have remembered. This experiment will be carried out for two days one in the morning and the other one in the afternoon. However, on the both days there will be a different pictures and words , so kids won't remember it and write down what they remembered from yesterday. The pictures will flash between their eyes for about 5 seconds, the pictures will be showed on the board , in the front of the classroom and after the presentation is finished they will need to write down what they remember. During a second day when kids are having their concentration test again , they will have a normal day throughout as they would have one every single day, this would be more accurate. Also this test would be done for every each year group in the primary school so we can compare them and see whos doing better in what year group. Once the kids will write down all their answers down , the data will be collected and they would be put in the graph showing us which year group have remembered more pictures and words and in what time of the day they have did better.
The strength of this procedure is that kids are in their own natural environment and they dont know that they're being observed so they won't show off and pay their full attention to the pictures and words instead of the person that is observing them.
Disadvantage of this is that the kids might feel bad that they haven’t remembered one word or a picture and they will give up as soon at they start , also kids that do much better and are concentrating more in class might do better this might be biased side of the experiment. And also we're only recording a visual memory , and there might be individually differences as some kids might remember better by hearing way or activity way.
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