DOCUMENTS

• Examples of documents

  personal : letters, diaries, memoirs

  official : school records, health records, OFSTED, league tables

  school created: website, newsletter, prospectus
• limitations of documents

  biased, subjective, parentocracy

  PRACTICAL: difficult to access, time consuming to analyse

  ETHICAL: invasion of privacy, consent

  THEORETICAL: invalid bias, not representative, unreliable
• strengths of documents

  PRACTICAL: easy to access if public, don’t cost lots

  ETHICAL: anonymous, legal if public

  THEORETICAL: reliable, representative