PROJECT ASSIGNMENT REQUIREMENTS
You will deconstruct a published research study of your choosing in order to demonstrate your understanding of the elements of research methods and good research design. You will be working with this study throughout the remainder of the course, so choose a research study from the academic literature in your field on either a topic of interest to you or a topic on which you might be interested in doing further research.
Choose a study that is either quantitative or qualitative. The study should meet the following criteria:
You are required to provide the following to complete this assignment:
Compose your assignment in a Microsoft Word document.
Readings
Leedy and Ormrod:
Suri’s 2011 article, “Purposeful Sampling in Qualitative Research Synthesis,” from Qualitative Research Journal, volume 11, issue 2, pages 63–75.
Read the following pages on Trochim’s Research Methods Knowledge Base Web site. The following pages provide material on sampling for quantitative methodologies.
Read Marshall’s 1996 article, “Sampling for Qualitative Research,” in Family Practice, volume 13, issue 6, pages 522–525. This article provides an explanation of qualitative sampling techniques and the rationale behind them. Examples are provided. Although written from the health care perspective, the coverage of methodology and sampling readily applies to qualitative research in psychology.
Optional
Crouch, M., & McKenzie, H. (2006). The logic of small samples in interview-based qualitative research. Social Science Information, 45(4), 483–499. doi:10.1177/0539018406069584. This article provides guidance on sampling for qualitative studies including determining or estimating an a priori sample size that will increase the odds of reaching saturation.
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