Understanding Education Research: A Guide to Critical Reading by Brown Launcelot & Pringle Janice & Shank Gary

Author:Brown, Launcelot & Pringle, Janice & Shank, Gary
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018-06-13T16:00:00+00:00

Design and Analysis

Design and Analysis issues address the “how” part of the methods or procedures section. There are literally thousands of ways that studies can be designed and analyzed, so all we can do here is outline the basic logic of these processes and point out some of the key examples:

Design

The design is the actual plan for answering the research questions. We have already looked at the general designs for quantitative studies (i.e., organizing, finding relationships, testing hypotheses, and building models) and qualitative studies (discovering meaning, investigating, seeking illumination, and participating). Here we will address some of the major practical issues that often arise when researchers implement designs:

Researchers have to be careful to identify and properly measure the correct variables they need to answer their research questions. For instance, if they are looking at the impact of test anxiety, they need to make sure they are not measuring generalized anxiety instead.

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