Choosing What to Measure
Subject characteristics affect the relationship you are investigating whether you measure them or not - the case for measuring and modelling them rather than restricting your sa…
Every page in the KEVOS library tagged research design. 11 pages.
Subject characteristics affect the relationship you are investigating whether you measure them or not - the case for measuring and modelling them rather than restricting your sa…
Random selection, random assignment and blinding are three different controls on three different biases - what each one protects against, and what remains uncontrolled.
The three research purposes named in the teaching source, the verbs that signal each one, and how the purpose you choose constrains every later design decision.
The three forms the research process takes — identifying a problem, testing theory and proposing solutions, and gaining evidence from observation — and how a project moves betwe…
Generating explanations from data against collecting data to test a prior proposition — the two directions of inference and how each shapes sampling, analysis and claims.
Sequential explanatory design in practice - survey first, interviews second, with the qualitative sections deliberately mirroring the quantitative ones so the strands actually m…
Words versus numbers, judgment versus counting — the two major research designs, what each is good for, and why the choice follows the question rather than preference.
Unpredictability, a changing social world and participant awareness — the five characteristics that make social science research different, and what they cost a project research…
Choosing methods that answer your question, the half-research half-writing time rule, and three worked question-to-method examples from the source.
Research design as the plan that connects question to evidence - and the finding that a week headed Research Design contains no research design content, only a restatement of wh…
A consolidated audit of what the supplied teaching material promised and what it delivered, week by week, plus the record of which files were missing and what that costs the rea…