Blanchardstown Campus
Department of Humanities
Applied Social Studies in Social Care
ASSESSMENT COVERSHEET 2020/21
Module Code & Title: SSSC H3015 – Research Methods and Practice
Lecturer: Dr Clay Darcy
Submission Date: Friday 18
December 2020, by 5pm via Moodle
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This assignment addresses the following CORU Proficiencies;
A. 5.17 – Demonstrate the ability to participate in or lead clinical, academic or
practice based research.
There are three parts to this assessment – you must complete all three parts.
Dr Clay Darcy, 2020
Research Methods and Practice – SSSC H3015
CA 3 – Quantitative Research Project (40%)
CORU Standards of Proficiency Assessed: 5.17
Brief
Part 1 –
Answer the following question – What is quantitative research and how can it be used in
social care settings?
Your answer should be no more than 500 words long and contain at least 4 academic
references. Your answer should be accompanied by a correctly completed reference list.
Your answer should be in size 12 font and double spaced.
Plagiarism will not be tolerated – please ensure you reference correctly.
Part 2 –
You must design a paper survey based on one of the following four research questions:
1. Are male social care workers adverse to doing personal care work?
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages to social care work?
3. How do social care workers care for themselves?
4. Does the general public understand social care work?
Your survey must contain exactly 20 individual questions. Your survey should include
questions that aim to gather some basic demographic information about the research
participant and questions that are designed to answer your chosen research question.
Your survey should include at least:
• two questions that gather nominal data,
• two questions that gather ordinal data,
• two questions that gather interval/ratio data,
• two Likert Scales,
• two multiple choice questions.
Your survey should be typed in size 12 font and 1.5 spaced.
Part 3 –
You must develop an analysis plan for the survey you designed for Part 2. Your plan must
identify how you will analyse each of the 20 survey questions. For example, your plan will
indicate whether univariate, bivariate or multivariable analysis could be used to analyse a
particular question. You must list each survey question and then state how you would
propose to analyse the data gathered from that question.
DUE – Friday 18
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December 2020 by 5pm via Moodle
Dr Clay Darcy, 2020
Marking Scheme:
Part 1 (20 Marks)
Understanding of quantitative research (8 Marks)
Use of quantitative research in social care (8 Marks)
References (4 Marks)
Part 2 (40 Marks) Each correctly formed survey question is worth 2 marks.
Part 3 (40 Marks) Each correctly identified method of analysis, for each of the 20 survey questions is
worth 2 marks.
Total Marks = 100
Dr Clay Darcy, 2020
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