Sociology homework---researching school and teachers

First of all, the research methods are triangulation, which means that it combine different reserch methods and different type of date in order to check the validity and reliability of their finding. In this case, They are using both quantitative data and qualitative data, closed questions ,which the different rating are set, the respondent simply has to choose one, it is easy , quick and cheap to classify and quantify.
However, the researcher provided limited information of schools and teachers, it might let respondents feel uncertain about which school or teacher it is refering to. Picture of teachers seen to be unneccessary, how about the picture and address of school?
There will be a relatively low response rate, ( If Mr.chris did not told me the web-site, i will never find it out) and respondents did not obtain much qualitative data.
Respondents might interpreted different meaning towards questions and answers. Such as helpfulness of teachers, some respondents might view the helpfulness as all student matter(family problem and life outside of school etc) or some might view it particularly helpfulness towards study, such as homework only.
These closed questions might seriously limit what respondents want to say.
Are the data availble in the web-sites reliable? The aim of this research is to provide the real facts of school, but what if the school itself is rating it, will that present a false picture of the school?
And sometime the data shown might be confuse, the respondents, in instance, the students most probably cannot rating teachers in a balance point of view. Eg, a student might be favour to one teacher and another are not, then the rating number may appear two extreme, thus it is confused.


There are some advantage by using internet to carry out such research.

• Inexpensive--no interviwers to pay, cheap to classify results.
• It is possible to survey a large sample.
• Fast and efficient analysis possible with pre-coded closed questions.
• Answers are obvious ( can be understand easily) and easily quantified.
• The most important--No interviewer bias. The interviewer does not influence the respondent`s answer. In this case, it is really important to the respondents when they are accually jusifying their school and teachers.
• Save time. When set up an internet research, researcher might simply put it aside and do other research at the same time.