2009). The greater the extent to which a young person identified with homeless culture, the more likely he or she was to be an abuser of drugs and alcohol. Although this cultural factor was the strongest correlative factor, the other domains in the Continue Reading...
new reading program on a student's ability to learn to read. Because the program is designed specifically for helping new readers learn basic reading skills the experimenter chooses only beginning first-grade students as the population of interest. Continue Reading...
Comparing and Contrasting Experimental and Correlational Research DesignsThe two research methods are both quantitative research methods. Experimental research designs are mainly used to investigate causal relationships and studying relationships bet Continue Reading...
Correlational Design Problems in Correlational Research Design In an attempt to determine how school children develop an interest in science -- more specifically, what factors might work to influence scientific interest in children -- a group of re Continue Reading...
Today, social science researchers have a wide range of research methods available for criminology and criminal justice applications, divided generally between quantitative and qualitative methods. Although quantitative and qualitative research method Continue Reading...
Some descriptive observation can even be unethical, if the subjects are unaware of the fact they are being observed. Historical research is similar to descriptive research in that it cannot, by virtue of its retrospective nature, affect the variabl Continue Reading...
Psychology Research Methods Imagine studying correlation research. Is there a possibility that this measure can get used in an actual psychology study? What does a positive, negative or zero correlation mean? Can a relationship exist between two var Continue Reading...
Non-experimental research designs is a type of study that is essentially uncontrolled. The research has little to no ability to influence the variables at work, and therefore the research cannot be considered a controlled experiment. There are severa Continue Reading...
Psychology- Social How is the research described in your chosen article an example of social psychology? Social psychology is often seen as the study of how people's feelings, outlooks, and behaviors are influenced by the definite, likely, or indir Continue Reading...
IT Management Compares Between Six Research Questionnaires in the Field of IT Management The development of questionnaires for a particular study is a much more complicated undertaking than simply posing a few questions and statistically measuring Continue Reading...
social science researchers have a number of different types of research designs available to them, including observational studies, correlational research, developmental designs, survey research and experimental designs (Neuman, 2009). This paper re Continue Reading...
Criminal Justice Research Methods There are a large number of research methodologies that can be used to investigate the effectiveness of criminal justice practices and reforms. The methodologies can be grouped into qualitative and quantitative, wit Continue Reading...
represented by different methodologies, describing the purpose of every methodology and providing an example of a research problem for every methodology. The ideas that will be discussed in this paper include exemplifying what encompasses a research Continue Reading...
motivation to learn, followed by an educated and informed research question. After the research question has been narrowed down, the researcher conceptualizes how the question may be answered feasibly, within the constraints of time and budget. Such Continue Reading...
Focus of the study will be males within the age group of 15-25 years old, with equal split across ethnic membership/race. Controlling for this variable is critical as this study will need to establish if there are differences in the intervention (sh Continue Reading...
Research Methodologies and Implications for Modern Businesses Today, two of the primary methods of collecting relevant information and interpreting it in unique ways to benefit business operations are qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Altho Continue Reading...
Child Abuse This research investigates the connection amongst childhood abuse as well as neglect and sexual risk conduct in middle adult years and whether psychosocial aspects (risky romances, affective signs and symptoms, alcohol and drug use, alon Continue Reading...
In other words, if the study is inordinately time-consuming for the purpose of doing something non-academic or otherwise beneficial, is it responsible research to ask young people to participate? G. External validity concerns "whether results from Continue Reading...
categories of research designs: true experiment, factorial, quasi-experiment, and ex post facto. Under each broad category, there are a number of more specific research designs. For instance, a co-relational design in which the researcher aims to de Continue Reading...
social science research are qualitative and quantitative research methods. Qualitative research is believed to operate from a subjective, constructionist view of reality, whereas quantitative research operates from an objective, positivist viewpoint Continue Reading...
Internal validity of any research design refers to the design's ability to make causal inferences from the data collected and the results of the study (Shadish, Cook, & Campbell, 2002). The research designs that offer the highest levels of intern Continue Reading...
Gerontology The research study framework explains the theory or a part of the theory that is to be tested in the research study. The framework shows the relationship between the different variables and helps to create the hypothesis which is to be t Continue Reading...
Correlational Study Identify a Group The group that will be used for this correlational study is the group of 6th graders from the school district of Winchester in VA. A control group will also be used from the same sample. The sample will include Continue Reading...
Research Methodology and DesignThis study uses a flexible research design with a questionnaire/interview methodology for collecting data, which is appropriate as this descriptive qualitative case study aims to identify key social issues perceived to Continue Reading...
This article is filled with many variables that are attempting to relate BMI with other social behaviors in children such as eating family meals. "Risk factors" are discussed as well, which are inherently confounding in their own right. A risk fact Continue Reading...
Topic: 1 My research is being designed to investigate the efficacy of a culturally appropriate and targeted diabetes education program on the reduction of A1C levels after six months. The population I am focusing on is Asian Americans with Type II di Continue Reading...
Nurse Lit Review TYPE OF RESEARCH STUDY - Quantitative or qualitative Descriptive, correlational, experimental, quasi-experimental, phenomenological, grounded theory ethnographic, historical SAMPLE METHOD & SAMPLE SIZE Knoll, Lautenschlager & Continue Reading...
Topic 1 This project is a quality improvement project and not a research project because it seeks to improve the quality of care provided to diabetes patients of a particular ethnic background. The point of this project is to better enhance the appro 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...
Domestic violence is often overlooked or simplified. People assume children who become exposed to domestic violence only exhibit negative symptoms. Just a couple of decades ago, few had any idea of the impact domestic violence had and continues to ha Continue Reading...
This is thus a correlational research measure, which aims to show a correlation between increases in marketing potential with increased use of social networking platforms for SMEs of various industries. The research will use the coding methods of gr Continue Reading...
Sports Participation And Character Development sports participation CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT Opening statement Summary of the literature framing history of the project, using 5 articles related to the problem Gaps and/or deficiencies in prior rese Continue Reading...
And their hypothesis made fully testable experimental predictions -- using a process that has previously shown to increase the degree of liking between strangers, how much does this process affect the number of complied-with requests vs. refusals? Continue Reading...
expressive analysis characterized by meanings and processes that are not experimentally measured or examined in terms of mathematical measurements (Leedy, 2012). Quantitative research on the other hand, builds and relies on mathematical methods and Continue Reading...
Computer Games Research When considering the short history of computers, video and PC gaming are very recent on the timeline of technology. This is one of the reasons why there have not been many conclusive studies on the negative and/or positive ef Continue Reading...
Campus Violence for K-12 Setting and accurate before referencing the material. What measurable outcome do you choose to explain? In other words, what is the dependent variable that you will study? The number of students in the K-12 setting that hav Continue Reading...
Bell Curve and Correlational Research Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray, authors of The Bell Curve, have received criticism for their inability to establish the "truth" in their research of intelligence. Rather than using objective tests to d Continue Reading...
