- You need to decide on two factor in this section
- How many research strategies will you use
- What research strategy these are
- Then state it within your research method e.g.
- You may write something like this…
Using a longitudinal approach a mixed method strategy will be used to collect the data. The initial interview with the participant will use both a survey to collect personal information and medical history along with an interview to gain in-depth lifestyle choices and patterns which may influence the data collection. During the tracking and monitoring stage the participant will complete a journal and daily health survey.
The advantages of using this mixed method approach are……
How Many Research Strategies?
- Mono-method
- One strategy or
- Just Qualitative data collection or
- Just Quantitative data collection
- Mixed-method
- Can be divided in to three areas
- Mixed model research
- Requires both qualitative and quantitative data collection
- At any stage of the project
- Data collection is dependent on each other
- Mixed method research
- Requires both quantitative and qualitative data
- Where the data is collected concurrently or sequentially
- Are not dependent on each other (projects in their own right)
- But come together to support each other
- Mixed model research
- Can be divided in to three areas
- Multi-method
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Which Research Strategy?
- Experimental Studies
- Use a carefully controlled and structured environment (laboratory)
- To isolate and control the variables
- Each individual variable is control to observes effect (change)
- However, these conditions can affect the way variable interact
- Survey
- Descriptive survey:
- Used to describe the topic/ subject
- Identifies & counts the frequency of a particular response
- Analytical survey
- Used to analyse relationship or differences between variables
- Identifies & counts the frequency of a particular response
- Descriptive survey:
- Case Study
- Are used to create an in-depth analysis of a specific subject or group
- Involves gathering and analysis information (qualitative and quantitative)
- Can be used to
- Descriptive what is happening in extreme detail
- Illustrative (explain) new practices and their impact
- Experimental case studies explore practices or procedure to increase their effectiveness
- Explanatory case studies apply practices and procedure to theories
- Action Research
- Involves changing or influencing a variable within a situation to monitor and evaluate the results
- Used to refine practices and procedures
- Requires active co-operation between researcher and clients
- Is continual process of adjustment to the intervention based on feedback/ data
- Grounded Theory
- Is used to test the validity of theoretical proposition (observed behaviour)
- Used to challenge approaches, which look for evidence within data or experimentation
- Research will always show you something (what you are looking for)
- Can lead to new ways of understanding a subject
- Ethnographic
- Used to observation participant (ethnography)
- Researcher often becomes a participant
- To experience what the participants are experiencing
- Observation can be overt (participants know) or covert (participants don’t know)
- Archival Research