Lesson Introduction

Welcome to Topic 6. This topic will cover Research validity and data collection. I will also explain pilot studies. There are 4 main learning outcomes you will need to achieve through this lesson, as shown below. You will also spend approximately 6 hours on this lesson.

Completing this topic will enable you to:

1.      Describe reliability and how to assess the reliability of a scale

2.      Describe validity and how to assess the validity of a scale

3.      Explain data collection methods

4.     Design Pilot studies