For this assignment I am required read and answer the follow questions in essay form. I will list the research article that I have chosen a long with the questions that need to be answered in the essay.
— The article that I have chosen is:
Bhattacherjee, A. (2012). Chapter 3: The research process. Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, and Practices. Scholar Commons, University of South Florida. Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/oa_textbooks/3/
Here are the Instructions for the essay:
Describe and summarize the theory or theories used in this article and name the social science discipline they come from.
Describe if this research comes from the inductive or deductive approach and support your rationale
Describe if this research is exploratory, descriptive, explanatory, or a combination and why. Support your rationale.
Identify the research methods used for the design of this research and describe how the authors collected their data. Indicate the following:
How did the researchers design the data collection instrument? Was it a qualitative or quantitative instrument?
Did they use qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods in their research design? Describe why you think this is so.
If you do not believe mixed methods were used, describe if you think the use of multiple methods would enhance the research and affect the results.
Describe the sampling process:
Who was used as their sample?
Was this sample recruited using non-probability sampling or probability sampling? Describe why you think this is so. Support your rationale.
Describe the methods used by the researchers in their analysis of the data.
How did they analyze the data?
Remember that they used some type of approach either qualitative data collection or quantitative data collection. Which one did they use and how did they analyze the data they collected? Describe the process.
Name the key independent and dependent variables of the research.
Was there measurement between the two variables? If so, what were they? If not, why do you think this is so?
Was there a hypothesis? If not, why do you think this is so?
Discuss the analyses that were conducted to arrive at the article’s conclusions.
Discuss the results of the research conducted. Do the authors cite any limitations to their research? If so, what are they?
Let’s say that an independent research foundation has given you money to expand and improve on this study by using a mixed-methods approach—that is, by adding a research methodology from another social science. The foundation’s board of scientists believes strongly in the value of interdisciplinary research and wants you to add the approach and unique methods of additional social science.
Category: Research Methods in Social Science
Listed before are the questions that I need answered. This assignment does not need to be in essay form but answered in paragraph form.
1.
Thoroughly describe how
concepts are defined and measured in exploratory, descriptive and explanatory
studies. In addition, describe how approaches to data collection vary among exploratory, descriptive, and explanatory studies. Make sure you describe the connection of each
of these approaches are related to qualitative and/or quantitative data
collection and analysis.
2.
Thoroughly identify and describe the various non-probability
sampling techniques. Identify and
describe the various probability sampling techniques. In your answer
describe when nonprobability sampling use used (in qualitative or quantitative
design?) and when probability sampling is used (in qualitative or quantitative
design?). How is sample size and
generalizability affected by these approaches?
3.
Thoroughly describe how qualitative interviews and focus group are constructed, implemented and
analyzed.
4.
Thoroughly describe how
quantitative surveys are constructed, implemented and analyzed.
5. Imagine that you are planning on studying the effect that
taking classes affect the work-life balance.
Create three questions – one at the nominal, one at the ordinal and one interval/ratio level of measurement. Explain why you think that
particular question fits that level of measurement