Democrito Louierick L.

Plaza VI IV-8 8/19/14

Critic in Research

1. In my opinion, it was a good call to use questionnaire as a method of data
collection given that the population was too many of a sample to handle, but if
the researchers were after a more meaningful data, then they could have used
an interview method, to thoroughly see the reactions of students toward drug
use, the downfall to this method is that the respondents may not participate in
this because of the time allotted and for privacy reasons.

2. Well, the reliability is .70 which does not meet the .80 standard of reliability. As
for the tool, using face validity, I think of it as somewhat appropriate because he
referred it to professionals who encounter these phenomena most of the time.

3. Yes it was, as they were able to reach at least 10 respondents for pilot testing.

4. The method was ok, but with the given number of respondents and the thought of
having open-ended questions may give a variation as to what results the
research expect. Furthermore, since it doesnt seem all that accurate for there
may be instances that the students may answer the questionnaires non-
seriously, and that may affect the outcome all together.

5. Factors that may contribute to bias could be:
Possible manipulation of data
Possible coercion with respondents (i.e. pay to participate)
Taking the questionnaire as a joke
Not fully disclosing what the student really needs to share