Practres- Design And Sampling

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word which means a plan or something that is conceptualized by the mind.

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Design

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As a result of a mental activity characterized by unfixed formation of something but an extensive interconnection of things, a design in the field of research serves as a blueprint or a skeletal framework of your research.

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Design

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Involves planning the methods or techniques in collecting and analyzing data.

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Qualitative research

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To describe person, thing, or any creature on Earth for the purpose of explaining reasons behind the nature of its existence.

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Case study

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Aim is to determine why such an individual or an object acts, behaves, occurs, or exists in a particular manner. Usually, centers on an individual or single subject matter.

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Case study

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Methods of collecting data: interview, observation, questionnaire

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Case study

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Involves a study of a certain cultural group or organization in which the researcher obtain knowledge about the characteristics, organizational set-up, and relationships of the group members, must necessarily involve you in their group activities.

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Ethnography

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Requires actual participation in group member’s activities while a case study treats researcher as an outsider whose role is just to observe the group.
- Require you to live with the subjects.

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Ethnography

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Allows you to determine reasons for changes or permanence of things in the physical world in a certain period.

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Historical study

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Study as time of changes is not a time shorter than a year, but a period indicating a big number of years.

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Historical study

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Differs from other research designs because of this one element that is peculiar to it, the scope.

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Historical study

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Methods of collecting data: biography / autobiography reading, documentary analysis and chronicling activities, questionnaire

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Historical study

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——- is something you experience on Earth as a person. It is a sensory experience that makes you perceive or understand things that naturally occur in your life, such as death, joy, friendship, caregiving, defeat, victory, and the like.

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Phenomenology

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Finds itself relevant or useful to people such as teachers, nurses, guidance counselors, and the like, whose work entails giving physical and emotional assistance or relief to people.

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Phenomenology

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Unstructured interviews

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Phenomenology

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Aims to develop a theory that will increase your understanding of something in psycho-social context.

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Grounded theory

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Enables you to develop theories to explain sociologically and psychologically influenced phenomena for proper identification of a certain educational process.

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Grounded theory

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Takes place in an inductive manner, wherein one basic category of people’s action and interactions gets related to a second category; to third category; and so on, until a new theory emerges from the previous data.

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Grounded theory

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Grounded theory

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How to collect data using grounded theory

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A return to the previous data to validate the new theory is a zigzag sampling; data is collected through: formal, informal, or semi-structured interview and analysis or written works, notes, phone calls, meetings, proceedings, and training sessions.

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Method or process of selecting respondents or people to answer questions meant to yield data for a research study.

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Sampling

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Chosen ones constitute the sample through which you will derive facts and evidence to support the claims or conclusions propounded by your research problem.

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Sampling

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Bigger group from where you choose the sample is called

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Population

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Is the term used to mean the list of the members of such population from where you will get the sample.

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Sampling frame

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History of sampling

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Beginning of sampling could be traced back to the early political activities of the Americans in 1920 when Literary Digest did a pioneering survey about the American citizens’ favorite among the 1920 presidential candidate

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Involves all members listed in sampling frame representing a certain population focused on by your study.

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Probability Sampling or Unbiased Sampling

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Equal chance of participation in the sampling or selection process is given to every member listed in the sampling frame. What kind of sampling

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Probability Sampling or Unbiased Sampling

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Able to obtain a sample that is capable of representing the population under study or of showing strong similarities in characteristics with the members of the population. What kind of sampling

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Probability Sampling or Unbiased Sampling

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crops up if the selection does not take place in the way it is planned; manifested by strong dissimilarity between the sample and the ones listed in the sampling frame.

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Sampling error

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Read this

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Smaller the sample is, the bigger the number of sampling errors; however increasing size of sample is not easy.
- Things you have to mull over in finalizing this: Expenses for questionnaires and interview trips, interview schedules, and time for reading respondents’ answers.
- Right sample size also depends on whether or not the group is heterogeneous or homogeneous.
Types:

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best type of probability sampling; using a pure-chance-selection, you assure every member the same opportunity to be in the sample.

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Simple random sampling

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What to do in simple random sampling. A and B

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A. Have a list of all members of population; write each name on a card and choose cards through pure-chance-selection.
b. Have a list of all members; give a number to member and then use randomized or unordered numbers in selecting names from list.

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chance and system are the ones to determine who should compose the sample; ex. out of a list of 15,000 students, take every 15th name on list until you complete the total no. of respondents.

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Systematic Sampling

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chosen in a way that such group is liable to subdivision during the data analysis stage.

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Stratified Sampling

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makes you isolate a set of persons instead of individual members to serve as sample members; ex. if you want to have a sample of 120 out of 1,000 students, randomly select three sections with 40 students each to constitute the sample.

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Cluster Sampling

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Disregards random selection of subjects.

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Non-probability Sampling

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when you think you know the characteristics of the target population very well; tend to choose sample members possessing or indicating the characteristics of the target population.

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Quota sampling

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there is no need for you to do any selection process.

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Voluntary sampling

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choose people whom you are sure could correspond to the objectives of your study, like selecting those with rich experience or interest in your study. What kind of sampling

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Purposive or Judgmental Sampling

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willingness of a person as your subject to interact with you counts a lot; ex. you encounter a person in the corridors during your data collections and they show willingness to respond to your questions. What kind of sampling

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Availability sampling

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similar to snow expanding widely or rolling rapidly; free to obtain data from any group just like snow freely expanding and accumulating at a certain place, you tend to increase the number of people you want.

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Snowball sampling