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Concept Topic Sheet for Final Exam in SYA 4300 Types of questions multiple choice true false matching short answer short essay Levels of questions anything from memorization ex definitions to application Same format as the midterm exam Ethics Informed consent o o o o Confidentiality and Anonymity Ethics committees IRB o o o Quantitative data analysis Process o Theory Look to prior work o Hypothesis Building on your literature review o Choose a research design o Devise the measures of your concepts operationalization o Select research site s IF you are collecting own data o Select research subjects respondents aka the sample o Collect data o Enter clean process data o Analyze data o Draw out findings and conclusions o Write up your research o o Frequency tables Number of people or cases in each category Often expressed as percentages of sample Interval ratio variables must be grouped Univariate analysis frequency tables measures of central tendency measures of dispersion graphs bar pie o o o Bivariate analysis Cross tabulation contingency tables o o o o Correlation and causation Spuriousness Mediating moderating intervening variables Chi square test When would we conduct multivariate analyses o To look for a possible spurious relationship between two variables o To look for intervening variables third variables moderating relationship Introduction to qualitative research What is it Methods of qualitative research o o o Contrasts and comparisons with quantitative research o differences o similarities Main steps in qualitative research Reliability and validity in qualitative research Main preoccupations of qualitative researchers Critiques of qualitative research o o o o Triangulation o o o Interviewing in qualitative research Grounded theory o Qualitative research as an iterative process Structured interview vs semi structured interview Preparing for a semi structured interview Finding interview subjects o Purposive sampling methods Techniques to ask questions in a semi structured interview o o o o o Ethnographic research and participant observation Gaining access entry in ethnography o o Overt vs covert ethnography Types of field notes o Mental notes jotted notes full field notes o o o o Full field notes o When to write up after o How to analyze Risk of going native Ethical issues in field research Challenges of ending an ethnographic study o Theoretical saturation point o Practical concerns Qualitative data analysis Grounded theory o o Purpose of coding in qualitative research Process of coding qualitative data o What does the process of coding involve o o o When does coding occur Coding all of the different types of codes coding o Including types of initial opening coding and focused coding Various tools and techniques in qualitative data analysis o o o Mixed methods Approaches identified by Bryman textbook in favor of combining quantitative and qualitative research e g triangulation offset and completeness process different research questions etc Reasons why we don t simply always use mixed methods o Need to justify theoretical value of using both qualitative and quantitative methods o o o o o o Credibility of mixed methods o o o Who likes to see mixed methods research Funding agencies dissertation committees policy makers etc o Content analysis What is it What is counted Evaluation and applied research What is it Foci or types of evaluation research Differences between basic and applied research o above


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