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Educational Research Design Module (Week 5)<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

The following is a reflection on the Tuesday morning class that took place on 16th May 2017 from 10:00 to 13:00 using Gibbs Reflective Cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n

Description<\/strong><\/p>\n

THIS WEEK:\u00a0 Data Collection<\/p>\n

NOTES:\u00a0 from today’s class…<\/p>\n

Note:\u00a0 Check out Envivo software.
\nNote:\u00a0 Ethics:\u00a0 if you offer an incentive to complete your survey, this should be stated in your ethics section.
\nNote:\u00a0 You should let people know what you plan to do about the data that you collect.
\nNote:\u00a0 Informed consent.<\/p>\n

Quantitative Data<\/p>\n

Nominal (Male, Female???!!!), Ordinal, Scale<\/p>\n

Andy Field – Statistics and SPSS and YouTube<\/p>\n

Statistical Data
\n– Census<\/p>\n

Survey Data
\n– End of module feedback sheets
\nScores of Results
\n– exams, tests, quizzes
\nSystems Analytics
\n– Webcourses\/Blackboard\/Moodle<\/p>\n

Primary Research
\n– Questionnaires
\n– Structured Observations<\/p>\n

Secondary Research
\n-CSO Data
\n– Institutional Data, records
\n– Web hits, Google analytics
\n– System analytics<\/p>\n

What is Qualitative Data<\/p>\n

Qualitative data analysis explores themes, patterns, stories, narrative structure, and language within research texts (interview transcripts, field notes, documents, visual data, etc) in order to interpret meanings…<\/p>\n

Cousin, 2009<\/p>\n

Some Examples of Qualitative Data<\/p>\n

Interview, focus group
\nQuestionnaire Data
\nObservation Notes
\nReflective Diaries and Logs
\nWritten Texts and Documents
\n– Government policies or reports
\n– Institutional documents
\nImages
\nVideo<\/p>\n

Common Data Collection Issues
\n– Sample Size
\n– Triangulation (see p.37 in Gray) (can be from one quantitative method to a qualitative method or to another quantitative method)<\/p>\n

Something to think about…
\n– Does the analysis of qualitative data involve some quantitative methods?
\n– A second question…<\/p>\n

Validity
\n“Good” or “bad” research
\n(Opie, 2004)<\/p>\n

Validity relates to findings and results
\nBut it also relates to research design and process<\/p>\n

Qualitative Research
\nIn qualitative data, validity might be addressed through honesty, depth, richness and scope of the data achieved, the participants approached, the extent of triangulation and the disinterestedness of the researcher.<\/p>\n

Quantitative Research
\nValidity of instruments
\n– importance of ……
\nConstruct validity
\n– what your interested in has actually been measured
\nInternal validity
\n– can a causal relationship be shown?
\nExternal validity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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