WK8: QUANITATIVE
Four main sources of topics: Theory, Personal experience, Replication, Literature
Researchable topics: have theoretical or practical significance
Non researchable topics: address philosophical or ethical issues
Literature review: Systematic identification, location, and analysis of documents containing information related to the research problem or question
Four stages of conducting a literature review
Identifying key words to guide research
Identifying sources
Abstracting information found in references
Analysing, organising an reporting the literature
Meta-analysis: statistical approach to summarising the results of many studies on the same problem
Effect sizes: the different between the means for the experimental and control group groups in control group standard deviation units
Inductive hypothesis: generalisation made from several observations (qualitative studies)
Deductive hypothesis: derived from theory and aimed at providing evidence to support, expand or contradict aspects of that theory (quantitative studies)
Four main sources of topics: Theory, Personal experience, Replication, Literature
Researchable topics: have theoretical or practical significance
Non researchable topics: address philosophical or ethical issues
Literature review: Systematic identification, location, and analysis of documents containing information related to the research problem or question
Four stages of conducting a literature review
Identifying key words to guide research
Identifying sources
Abstracting information found in references
Analysing, organising an reporting the literature
Meta-analysis: statistical approach to summarising the results of many studies on the same problem
Effect sizes: the different between the means for the experimental and control group groups in control group standard deviation units
Inductive hypothesis: generalisation made from several observations (qualitative studies)
Deductive hypothesis: derived from theory and aimed at providing evidence to support, expand or contradict aspects of that theory (quantitative studies)