Quantitative Data Collection
This method involves participants answering questions using response scales.
What are surveys?
This method involves speaking to participants 1-on-1 to understand their thoughts, feelings, and motivations.
Atlas.ti, NVivo, and Dedoose
What are qualitative data analysis software?
The science and practice dealing with the effective collection, storage, retrieval, and use of information.
What are the information sciences?
Ability to test theories and hypotheses.
What is a benefit of quantitative methods?
Greater depth of data
What is a benefit of qualitative methods?
SPSS & R
What are quantitative data analysis software?
A committee that applies research ethics by reviewing the methods proposed for research to ensure that they are ethical
What is an IRB?
focused, feasible/researchable, interesting, novel, ethical, relevant
What are characteristics of a good research question?
This method involves within-subjects or between-subjects designs.
What are experiments?
Not generalizable
What is a drawback of qualitative methods?
This infamous study was critiqued for being unethical by changing social media users' news feeds without their knowledge.
What is the Facebook Emotional Contagion study?
Chronological, Thematic, Methodological, Theoretical
What are ways of structuring a literature review?
The quality of findings is based largely on what scales or measurements you use.
What is a drawback of quantitative methods?
The degree to which you can apply the results of your study to a broader context.
What is generalizability?
Three Belmont Principles
What are beneficence, respect for persons, and justice?
Examples include AND, OR, -, and " ". These are helpful for searching for literature in scholarly databases.
What are Boolean operators?
The process of investigating social structures and characterizing networked structures in terms of nodes and the ties, edges, or links that connect them.
What is a social network analysis?
A method of qualitative research that involves a group of participants in an online environment completing periodic activities both individually and as a group.
What are Asynchronous Remote Communities?
One of the most common forms of analysis within qualitative research. It emphasizes identifying, analysing and interpreting patterns of meaning within qualitative data.
What is thematic analysis?
What is inductive reasoning?