respond to both of these posts,
- Pilot study is one of the essential and critical stages in conducting research project. It is used to identify
possible deficiencies and problem areas in one’s research instrument and protocol prior to implementation
during full study. Using pilot study can help to become familiar with the procedures in the protocol. It helps in
making decision like using surveys rather than a self-administered questionnaire. Pilot study is used to test
data collection instruments, research protocols, sample recruitment strategies and other techniques that will be
used in preparation before one conducts the main study. It is an additional step, but it is important to take the
time to test, critique or improve the research design even before the execution phase. And this can be applied
to different types of research approaches. Field test on the other hand is typically used to have experts in the
field review an untested set of interview questions or surveys to validity, credibility, dependability. Data set in
field test is not collected and so IRB approval is not needed. A separate IRB review is not needed in a field test
because data is not collected.
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Ruel, E., Wagner III, W. & Gillespie, B. (2016). Pretesting and pilot testing. In Ruel, E., Wagner III, W., &
Gillespie, B. The practice of survey research (pp. 101-119). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc doi:
10.4135/9781483391700 - According to Young and Brooker (2006) archival data sets present the researcher with unfiltered and raw
data. This means that as the data set is held to standards that already ensures its validity. In chapter 3 I will
need to discuss the validity of the standardized test that was used to collect the archival data
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