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COURSE CODE: EDU 316

COURSE TITLE: RESEARCH


METHODS AND STATISTICS IN EDUCATION

TOPIC: LONGITUDINAL STUDIES


MEANING OF LONGITUDINAL STUDIES:

 Developmental research is a type of


research of non-experimental research
that can be used to study age-related
changes in behaviour.

 Longitudinal research design is a


principal type of developmental
research design.
Same or different samples within a
population is repeatedly studied over an
extended period of time. It repeatedly
observed the same variables over a long
period of time.

It is used to observe changes or


developmental trends in life of an
organization, institutions, or an individual or
group of people
TYPES OF LONGITUDINAL STUDIES:
 TREND STUDY: Requires taking
different samples from a population
whose members may change at
different point in time.
E.G (Attitude of 300level students to
teaching and learning of EDU 316)

 COHORT STUDY: It involves identifying


and studying sub-populations based
TYPES OF LONGITUDINAL STUDIES Contd:

 PANEL STUDY: Here the researcher


surveys the same sample of
individuals at different times during
the course of survey.
ISSUES RELATED TO LONGITUDINAL STUDY:
Generalizability of the results to others in
their environment .
Loss to follow-up and missing data of
random.
Repeated measures on individuals are not
independent.
Observations of varying time points since
symptom onset should be recorded.
STRENGTHS OF LONGITUDINAL STUDIES:

It allows assessment of stability and


continuity of several attributes of a
sample by repeatedly observing the
same participants.

It allows identification of developmental


trends by looking for common attributes
that the subjects share.
STRENGTHS OF LONGITUDINAL STUDIES
Contd:

It avoids cohort effects because the


researcher examines one group of
people over time rather than comparing
several different groups that represent
different ages.

It allows researcher to discuss how a


single individual’s behaviour changes
WEAKNESS OF LONGITUDINAL STUDIES:
It is very time consuming.

It is very expensive to conduct. Because


it takes a longer period of time, the
research outcome may seem trivial.

Practice effect may threaten the validity


of the study.
WEAKNESS OF LONGITUDINAL STUDIES Contd:
Participant attention may create biased
and non-representative samples.

There may be cross-generalizational


problem which may limit the conclusions
of the longitudinal to only the
participate growing up while the study
was in progress.
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