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Reliability, accuracy, quicker, more data and more generalizability, ability to test hypotheses and existing theory, statistically robust, greater ability to identify and test cause-and-effect relationships
What are the benefits of quantitative research methods?
A type of research that aims to gather and analyze non-numerical data in order to gain an understanding of individuals' social reality, including understanding their attitudes, beliefs, and motivation.
What is qualitative research?
When using both methods leads to a better understanding of the research question and more in-depth data analysis
When is it helpful to use mixed methods?
Examples include AND, OR, +, and " ". Used to search scholarly databases for existing peer-reviewed literature.
What are Boolean operators?
A systematic investigation designed to produce new knowledge/conclusions
What is research?
What are drawbacks of quantitative research?
What are drawbacks of qualitative research?
Why would you NOT want to do mixed methods research?
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What are drawbacks of mixed methods research?
What is an Institutional Review Board?
Defined as a "Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority"
What is Orientalism?
SPSS, R, and SQL are examples of these.
What are quantitative data analysis software?
What are benefits of qualitative research?
A type of research design structured with a quantitative portion first followed by a qualitative portion that further explores something uncovered during the quantitative analysis.
What is the Explanatory Sequential design in Mixed Methods Research?
This happens when a journal has to give a disclaimer correcting and/or retracting an inaccurate or unethical research article.
What is a statement of concern/statement of retraction?
Involves a lead-in, statement of originality, and justification
What is a problem statement?
A theory that is useful in the social sciences to study relationships between individuals, groups, organizations, or even entire communities/societies.
What is social network theory?
Very time-consuming and resource intensive, poses ethical issues regarding transparency and extracting value from participant communities, difficult to replicate, "subjective"
What are drawbacks of ethnographic methods?
Involves naming segments of data with a label that simultaneously categorizes, summarizes, and accounts for each piece of data
What is qualitative coding?
Universities have these, but industry researchers don't always...
What is an Institutional Review Board for human subjects research?
Examples include sense perception, reason, intuition, emotion, memory, and faith.
What are ways of knowing?
An intensive longitudinal research methodology that involves asking participants to report on their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and/or environment on multiple occasions over time.
What is the Experience Sampling Method?
A method that draws from existing Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) methods such as focus groups, interviews, diaries, and scenarios. It applies them to an online platform to take advantage of the unique properties of qualitative research conducted through online forums, including the involvement of distributed populations.
What are Asynchronous Remote Communities?
Attempting to seek convergence, corroboration, and correspondence of results from multiple different methods.
What is triangulation in Mixed Methods Research?
A research ethics principle involving minimizing potential harms and maximizing potential benefits of participation in research and respecting participants' decisions
What is "beneficence"?
A form of reasoning in which the researcher starts with specific observations, then recognizes patterns, then makes conclusions/develops theory
What is inductive reasoning?