Chapter 4 - Nature of Research Method Flashcards
What are some attributes of qualitative approaches?
- Alternative to numerical methods
- Words are primary component
- Inductive approach (generally)
- May result in a theory development as an outcome of data analysis
- Words can be converted to numerical or quantitative
What should the Introduction include?
- Problem statement
- background information and rationale
- question(s), and
- hypothesis
What should the Review of Literature act as?
A brief summary
What types of design should the Materials & Methods (3) segment of a research proposal use?
Either Experimental or Observational
What should the Materials & Methods segment of a research proposal include?
- Data Collection plans / methods
- Data analysis plan
What should the Limitations (5) segment of a research proposal discuss?
Justify the design decisions and describe limitations.
What are some characteristics of a weak research proposal?
- Poor statement of need
- Vague objectives
- Proposal too disjointed
- Too much $ asked for
- Not enough information, etc,
What are some common sub-problems of a research proposal?
- Where are data to be found?
- Can you obtain the data?
- If you obtain the data, what will you do with it?
- Will obtaining the data address each subproblem (i.e. will it allow you to confirm or reject your null hypotheses?)
True or False: You don’t necessarily need to solve the “big” problem in your overall problem statement, but you need to describe how you’re going to solve
subproblems.
True.
Qualitative studies often focus on collecting data in ___________ situations.
Field
What is the tool used in qualitative data collection?
Oneself
Qualitative data provides __________ to a situation or perception.
insight
What types of academic areas normally use qualitative data?
- Anthropology
- Business
- Education
- History, etc.
Manipulation and control phenomena are relation to what kind of data?
Quantitative
What is triangulation?
It uses several frames of reference to analyse a set of data.
