Criminal Justice There are a large number of study designs that can be used to better understand issues in social sciences, including criminal justice (USC, 2014). Before a study design can be applied to a particular phenomenon or problem, however, Continue Reading...
Predictors of the Transition From Experimental to Daily Smoking Among Adolescents in the United States By reviewing the methodology and analysis sections of the study, I discovered that the quantitative method used was a complex sampling design with Continue Reading...
Educational Research: Charter Schools Descriptive vs. Experimental Research Experimental research studies seem to be 'cleaner' on their surface than descriptive research studies. A researcher can, in experimental research studies, apparently contro Continue Reading...
This lighting component is connected by the "IR receiver/sensor to the dimming ballast...[which]...provides the control to change the lamp's lumen output." (Richman, 2005) Another lighting system introduced by Knisley is one that "features a manual Continue Reading...
Remembering the 1960s Qualitative Research Design: Remembering the 1960s …the qualitative researcher often is the instrument, relying on his or her skills to receive information in natural contexts and uncover its meaning by descriptive, exp Continue Reading...
But science is about stepping stones: the creation of theories and hypothesis, and the testing of these hypotheses with empiricism. If these theories fail, then additional hypotheses have to be proposed. During the process of the testing these hypot Continue Reading...
Research on the most effective and cost-effective methods of physiotherapy training for improving chronic lower back pain outcomes can use a multitude of different designs. During the course of my search for evidence, I expect to find several meta-an Continue Reading...
As a result, only one-third of the participants actually fulfilled their role during the course of the year (Melin & Lenner, 2009). Typically, parents failed to appear at previously arranged joint meetings with the nurses and their children; lik Continue Reading...
structured analysis of an experimental study by Buller et al. (2004), which describes a randomized statistical trial of two types of medication that were used to treat a blood disorder. The two types of medication used were called Fondaparinux and E Continue Reading...
Lighting, temperature and other environmental factors were indistinguishable among the rooms. Subjects in T1 were allowed to play with toys for forty-five minutes before the vocabulary lesson began. Subjects in T2 and T3 were given forty-five minut Continue Reading...
Graphic Design Comparison Graphic design has the power to shape our world and reflect our history. This is abundantly clear when examining two works of graphic design over a century apart. This paper will examine the similarities and difference betw Continue Reading...
cross-cultural psychology can easily be applied to the field of graphic design. In fact, graphic designers can greatly improve their practice by incorporating cross-cultural psychology into their framework and philosophy. Aesthetics and design princ Continue Reading...
Human Factors and Interior Space Design The objective of this work in writing is to summarize the article entitled "The Relation of Human Factors and Interior Space Design." This article begins by noting the importance of the human having tools tha Continue Reading...
Bridge Design and Engineering Bridges are an integral but often overlooked part of today's commuting society. Most drivers feel completely secure and grounded when on any well-designed bridge, even though they may in fact be hundreds of feet in the Continue Reading...
Benefit Plan Design Analysis Select and profile an organization for the benefit plan Extraordinary and above average people are recruited by ABC. Their task force possesses a number of exceptional skills and many of them are graduates of top univer Continue Reading...
Experimental Design Worksheet This study will test the contention of Hall (2016) that Internet use is inversely correlated with happiness. In his study of Internet use, Hall found that the longer individuals spent online per day, the lower their mea Continue Reading...
Research Methods Literature Review A literature review on an identified research topic or issue is an important element when conducting a study regardless of whether the study employs qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods research design. The s Continue Reading...
Inpatient Whiteboards This study is a theoretical framework exploring whiteboard use preferences and recommendations for patient-centered care and communication through whiteboard use. This study is a theoretical framework exploring whiteboard use Continue Reading...
Introduction to the Problem Designing effective support services for students with autism remains one of the most pressing needs in special education (Creswell, 2013). Autism is described as being a spectrum because of its diverse manifestations. The Continue Reading...
Low, Stanton, Bower & Gyllenhammer (2010) Strengths: All women at Stave IV breast cancer, allows to moderate for stage level differences in psychological processing Random assignment to experimental group Control group also writes, just not Continue Reading...
Dennis and O'Connor (2013) utilized mixed design consisting of a correlational design (a non-experimental quantitative study) and two qualitative case studies to answer the following three research questions: Is there an association between the clas Continue Reading...
Validity in research is a term that refers to the extent with which researchers are confident that they have determined causal relationships through the cause and effect they identify in their study. As a result, validity is an important aspect of re Continue Reading...
Question 1 If Mary wants to study the impact of background noise level on sixth grader learning in a math lesson, the independent variable is the background noise condition. Mary has decided to use a t-test, which means that she will only have two co Continue Reading...
The centralized church, "of circular or polygonal plan, with one large central space, usually with a dome overhead" became more popular in the Middle Ages. First came Romanesque and then Gothic churches, in the form of works such as Notre Dame and Continue Reading...
The study by Flynn et al. (2013) is a quantitative retrospective cohort study conducted to determine what types of patients were visiting the primary care, express care and emergency department of a group practice facility over the course of a year. Continue Reading...
DPI The PICOT question is: To what extent is there a relationship between the standard health education to implement patient-specific dietary and lifestyle modifications compared to patients who receive culturally tailored diabetes education and the Continue Reading...
Participants and Instruments The anticipated participants in the study I would like to conduct (the effect of teaching diagramming on students learning the basics of English grammar) are 6th grade students of predominantly white students in the outl Continue Reading...
It is often easier to impose this sort of control in a laboratory setting. Thus, true experiments have often been erroneously identified as laboratory studies" (Woolf, 2012). True experiments rigidly control for validity by attempting to isolate var Continue Reading...
Psychology What are the similarities between descriptive and inferential statistics? The two types of statistics are applied in researches in making judgments regarding social behaviors. Both of them help in finding out the meanings of social inci Continue Reading...
Although every research setting will be unique in some fashion, there are some generalities involved in content analysis that can be followed by novice researchers. For example, according to Riffe, Lacy and Fico (2005), "Usually, but not always, con Continue Reading...
Body Mass Index Knowledge of Older Adults and Motivation to Change This article is authored by Wills, Fehin, and Callen and published in the British Journal of Community Nursing, 16:3. It was selected as an example of a quasi-experimental design. Th Continue Reading...
Cognitive False Beliefs new False Beliefs and Their Behavioral Consequences Human psychology is so amazing that it can control human behavior with and without his conscious will. People often develop habits, behaviors or routines that become a vit Continue Reading...
scientific studies involve the use of quantitative research designs whose experiments are sometimes described as true science. In this case, the research designs employ the use of conventional mathematical and statistical procedures for measurement Continue Reading...
In the experimental community, the researchers instituted a media campaign to increase seat-belt usage, followed by increased police enforcement of the seat-belt law. It was found that the percentage of drivers using seat belts increased in the expe Continue Reading...
We have also talked about the "blue print" of a study, or the logical model of proof which guides the researcher throughout the entire study -- i.e. The research design. It is by which the investigator determines the relationships between variables Continue Reading...
In this way, true experimental research attempts to control for all confounding variables, or at least consider their impact, while attempting to determine if the treatment is what truly caused the change. Note that individual background variables s Continue Reading...
