Research Design
Objectives:
- Distinguish between the terms, “research design” and “research methodology.”
- Describe the differences between quantitative and qualitative research methodologies.
- Discuss the concept of control and how it is established in quantitative and qualitative research.
- Describe the characteristics of designs: experimental, quasi-experimental, and non-experimental.
- Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the above designs.
- Explain the internal and external validity problems associated with the research designs.
- Specify reasons for conducting non-experimental research.
- Describe the relative advantages and disadvantages of retrospective and prospective studies.
- Identify areas in nursing research where qualitative approaches are likely to be especially fruitful.
- Discuss the basic procedures that are generally applied in qualitative analysis.
- Describe the phenomenological, grounded theory approach and ethnographic approach.
- Evaluate the appropriateness of the research design in a published study.
TEXTBOOK READING: Chapter 6, pp.
163-221
JOURNAL ARTICLES: Research
Design - Click here.
ON-LINE LESSON: Research Design Be sure to open and read all
of the links.
ASSIGNMENT 1: Chapter Concepts Exercises Do the exercises
and submit your anwsers in the form provided.
ASSIGNMENT 2: Literature Search Submit your list of
ten articles. Due July 14.
ASSIGNMENT 3: Quantitative Critique: A One-Minute
Paper Answer the "one-minute" questions and submit to me using
the form.
GROUP ASSIGNMENT 1: Quantitative Critique: Section 6 Get
into your group and work on this part of the assignment. You will be submitting a
paper copy to me.
WEB ACTIVITY 1: Conclusion Validity: The OJ Simpson
Metaphor
