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When we set about conducting research with young people, we need to put aside our assumption that they will perceive the experience as we might in their place. As we know that “both respondent and question characteristics affect the reliability of responses in surveys” (Borgers et al. 2004, p. 17), conducting any research with children and students requires careful consideration of characteristics often unique to this demographic. Unlike in some qualitative approaches, such as semi-structured interviews, where we can exercise a degree of flexibility to probe the areas of our inquiry, we do not have the same wriggle room in survey-based quantitative data collection.
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Mat Roni, S., Merga, M.K., Morris, J.E. (2020). Conducting Research with Children and Students. In: Conducting Quantitative Research in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9132-3_3
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