Investigation Skills

• ethics

  set of moral principles or values

  • voluntary participation - subjects not pressured into taking part
  • informed consent - subjects fully informed about objectives, procedures, possible risks, potential benefits
  • no risk of harm - subjects informed about objectives, procedures, no risk of physical or psychological harm
  • confidentiality - identity of subject not revealed
• repetition


  completing investigation/research multiple times because the average of the results forms better conclusions for valid and accurate results
• valid

  controlled variables and don't test too many hypotheses
• reliability


  investigation gives same result each time, works hand in hand with repetition
• qualitative data


  observations given
• quantitative data


  represented as numbers or measurements
• tables must have title (variables and units included), each column has a heading, no units in the data (only in headings), data presented in columns (iv on left side, dv on right side)