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1. I can recognise the different paradigms by the assumptions they make.
2. I can describe the principles and values underpinning the main approaches to research.
3. I can explain how positivist approaches influence the research design, methods selected, data gathered, and kinds of conclusions drawn.
4. I can explain how interpretivist approaches influence the research design, methods selected, data gathered, and kinds of conclusions drawn.
5. I can list a range of approaches for collecting data of different kinds for different purposes.
6. I can describe the fundamental principles of approaches that seek to determine and explain relationships.
7. I can describe the fundamental principles of several approaches that seek understanding of ascribed meaning.
8. I can recognise where on the continuum of approaches a new one might fit.
9. I am alert to the possibility of studying social entities through analysis of already existing documents that does not involve engaging with people.
10. I am alert to the possibility of studying social entities through analysis of secondary data that does not involve engaging with people.
11. I can weigh up the value obtained by using different approaches to explore a situation.

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