Hello,
What is the difference between pilot study/ phase? preliminary study/ feasibility study?
What they call the type of piloting that aims to test the instrument (e.g. survey, interview)? and what is the name of the type of piloting that is considered a smaller version of the main (PhD) thesis?
In the confirmation viva what type of piloting new PGRs usually use in their first year?
My major is Applied Linguistics.
The most typical use for a pilot study is to "test the instrument," rather than to attempt a preliminary version of the entire project. In particular, pilot studies are most valuable when you are developing new instruments, and thus need to have prior information about their reliability and validity before putting the full study into the field.
A pilot or preliminary study is a small-scale of a complete survey or a pretest for a particular research instrument such as a questionnaire or interview guide. It could be conducted in qualitative, quantitative, and even mixed methods research.
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