CD 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.5: Naturalistic Observation, Ethnography
3 Apr 2017
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The goals of development research: three categories of research. Basic: to advance scienti c knowledge of human development. Applied: to answer practical questions related to improving children"s lines and experiences. Action: to provide data that can be used in making social-policy decisions. Criteria for developmental research: work usually beings with observation and speculation, four common criteria used to judge scienti c research. Objectivity: analyzing data should not be biased, nearly impossible to achieve complete objectivity but should be strived for. Reliability: consistency of the ndings, researches should get the same results, descriptions of results should be in agreement. Replicability: if researches can set up the same experiment and get the same results. Validity: data being collected re ect what the researches wanted. Methods of data collection: naturalistic observation. Observing and recording people"s behavior in a natural setting: this is a direct way to collect information on behavior, though, people may act different under observation.
