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10 essentials of research process

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Identify philosophical approach
Serves as the frame for the entire study
-Two primary approaches
-Logical positivism vs. holistic/humanistic
-Drives distinct design approaches
-Will change how you investigate the problem
Frame research problem
-The reason the research is being conducted
-All decisions and actions must serve to answer this stated problem
-Certain words will help you identify the research problem: lack of evidence, little information, conflicting findings, etc.
Determine supporting knowledge
-Review of published literature
-Other peer-reviewed work
Identify theory base
-Explaining phenomena
-Research should be contributing to theory or be based on theory
-Finding must relate to a theoretical context
Developed question or query
Will be very specific in experimental type research. May be more broad in naturalistic inquiry.
design strategy
Guided by purpose, theory, and research questions
"Action process" by which to explore the question
Set boundries
-Defines scope
-Inclusion/exclusion criteria
-Time, participants, process
-Protection of boundaries
-Use of human subjects
Obtaining information
-Data collection procedures
-Loosely structure to highly structured
Data analysis and conclusions
Analysis procedures
-Systematic
Statistical methods
-Answer the research question
-Fidelity of data
Interpreting data
-Answer research questions
-Generate new questions
Share and use knowledge
-Contribution to the body of knowledge
-Generates new research
-Provides guidelines for subsequent research
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