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Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...analysis modelled on it to engage in the careful measurement of phenomena. Positivists favour quantitative data. Positivists seek causal or statistical relationships among variables. Because of this, ontologically, people and their behaviours are considered variables. Positivists treat individuals as separate units, as the objects or subjects of a study. Positivists aim...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...Data analysis by the Guardian shows there is also a hidden epidemic among men and growing waiting times for children and young people seeking help. (Marsh, 2021) Discussion These two stories are concerned with issues around mental health. The general picture they present is one of a decline in young people's mental wellbeing, and their mood is generally pessimistic. These...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...data analysis and dissemination: A research note’, Qualitative Research Published online 30 October. https://doi.org/ 10.1177/ 1468794120965356 Rix, J., Hall, K., Nind, M., Sheehy, K. & Wearmouth, J. (2009) ‘What pedagogical approaches can effectively include children with special educational needs in mainstream classrooms? –A Systematic literature review Support...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...data analysis and how to control an experiment. After examining your results, you will share them with other learners and discuss your findings. Requirements This free course is intended for anyone with an interest in making scientific observations through experimentation, and does not require any previous experience of studying the subject. The experiments do involve...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to data and information in health and social care

...data analysis. They facilitate the transmission of data across vast distances by, for example, putting a picture into a form that can be transmitted, and then reassembling it into a picture at the receiving end. A computer system is the combination of: the computer (with its processor and storage) other equipment such as a scanner, monitor screen, keyboard, mouse or...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...analysis. 2. Qualitative researchers work mainly with unstructured data, in other words with data that are not structured in terms of analytic categories at the point of collection. As a result, they tend to use the following sorts of material: Documents of various kinds: official or personal, paper-based or electronic, consisting of text and/or images, extant or...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...analysis of data relating to the natural world by members of the general public, typically as part of a collaborative project with professional scientists’, although there are other perspectives. In practice, citizen science has emerged under a wide range of terms including public participation in scientific research (PPSR), public engagement with science, informal...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...data collection, data analysis, and dissemination of findings. Supporting young researchers with ‘MyShout!’...Session 4: Time to get started.: Where next? - If you’ve enjoyed this course you can find more free resources and courses on OpenLearn. You might be specifically interested in courses on education and development. New to University study? You may be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs