Research Designs
Process of Research
100
The traditional approach to conducting quantitative research.
What is experimental research design?
100
The educational issues, controversies, or concerns that guide the need for conducting a study.
What are research problems?
200
Procedures in quantitative research in which investigators administer a survey to a sample or to the entire population of people to describe the attitudes, opinions, behaviors, or characteristics of the population.
What is survey research design?
200
Written summary of journal articles, books, and other documents that describes the past and current state of information on the topic of your research study.
What is a literature review?
300
Enables you to generate a broad theory about your qualitative phenomenon found in the data.
What is grounded theory research design?
300
Statement that advances the overall direction or focus of the study.
What is a purpose statement?
400
With this research design, you can identify a group of people; study them in their homes or workplaces; note how they behave, think, and talk; and develop a general portrait of the group.
What is ethnographic research design?
400
Statement that participants sign before they participate in research.
What is an informed consent form?
500
Procedure for collecting, analyzing, and "mixing" both quantitative and qualitative methods in a single study or a series of studies to understand a research problem.
What is mixed methods research design?
500
The intentional selection of individuals and sites to learn or understand the central phenomenon.
What is purposeful sampling?
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