ATS3466 Study Guide - Content Validity, Sampling Bias, Criterion Validity

• School: Monash University
• Department: General Education Studies
• Course: ATS3466
• Professor: Marie Segrave

Document Summary

Research design & working with archives, document: reliability & validity. Records may be: historic - collected, catalogued, stored in archives recent origin - housed in facilities & offices. Public still in use personal use diaries, letters, research notes, etc: intended for use outside of source, standardized, arranged systematically alphabetical, chronological, internal reference number examples, commercial media accounts. Mass consumption, e. g. stats canada: official documentary records specific context e. g. court transcripts, school records. Value of documents/records dependent upon quality representativeness completeness of information. Never take documents at face value carefully evaluate corroborate. Data triangulation: connecting different sources of information, use different records & documents to verify the information of your primary source e. g. age at death parish burial records, birth records, death certificates, tombstones confirm findings, new information, additional perspectives. Permission & ethics permission not usually difficultif valid research project ethical obligations: treat documents & contents with respect.