Study Evaluation Toolkit

1. Ethics

1.1. Informed Consent

1.2. Deception

1.3. Debriefing

1.4. Right to Withdraw

2. Big Issues

2.1. Usefulness of Research

2.2. Application to everyday life

2.3. Generalisations

2.4. Ecological Validity

2.5. Qualitative vs Quantitative Data

2.6. Reductionism

2.7. Psychometrics

2.8. Snapshot vs longitudinal Data

2.9. Nature vs Nurture

2.10. Children in Research

2.11. Use of animals

2.12. Ethnocentric Bias

2.13. Individual vs Situational Factors

3. Sampling Method

4. Reliability

5. Validity

6. Methodology

6.1. Laboratory Experiments

6.2. Field Experiments

6.3. Natural/Quasi Experiments

6.4. Case Studies

6.5. Observational Studies

6.6. Questionnaires

6.7. Correlational Studies

7. Controls