A school council wants to find out how useful pupils think extra quiet study spaces at lunchtime would be. It considers these two questionnaire items:
Item 1: How useful would extra quiet study spaces be for pupils at lunchtime? Choose a number from 1 (not useful) to 5 (very useful).
Item 2: How useful would extra quiet study spaces be for pupils at lunchtime, when the school so obviously needs them? Choose a number from 1 (not useful) to 5 (very useful).
State which item is biased in its wording.
Give the words in this item that make it biased.
Explain one likely effect of using this item on the questionnaire responses.
173 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 7.3 Analysing Research, covering 7.3.1 Types of Data, 7.3.2 Measures of central tendency, 7.3.3 Other descriptive statistics, 7.3.4 Tables, Charts and Graphs, 7.3.5 Reliability, 7.3.6 Validity and effects on validity, and 7.3.7 Sources of bias. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.