Chapter 7 Evaluating Information: Validity, Reliability ...

[10:45 7/12/2007 ]Job No: 5052 Pierce: Research Methods in PoliticsPage: 79 79 99 Chapter 7 Evaluating information : validity , Reliability , accuracy ,TriangulationTeaching and learning consider why information should be understand the distinction between primary and secondary sources learn what is meant by the validity , Reliability , and accuracy of consider some warnings about official data consider further the distinction between facts and truth understand the origin of triangulation and its application to consider methods of sampling which can be used to collect data. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything .Bertrand Russell, Chapter 6, you read how published research reports can be assessed. Theresearch component analysis and Rose s ABCDE model examined the completenessand coherence of the research process adopted.

Evaluating Information: Validity, Reliability, Accuracy, Triangulation 83 gathered from a number of separate, primary sources and may contain authoritative commentary and analysis. The source’s interpretations and bias are important – especially of evidence of how events were interpreted at the time and later, and the

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