This presentation was recorded as a guest appearance for a course taught at the University of Auckland, Faculty of Education and Social Work. The course, EDUC735 ‘Researching Educational Settings’, is taught by Dr Mohamed Alansari. He funded a series of recordings on research methods of which this is one. Permission has been gained from him to link this presentation to my figshare.com account. The presentation was created as a response to the following prompts:1. What counts as a quantitative project?2. What are some of the essential features of a well-designed quantitative project?

1. What are the differences between reliability and validity, and why are these terms important?

2. Are self-report data reliable?The presentation follows a script I wrote to address those questions.