2022 Introduction to Statistics in Research Mitchell 2nd ed

I N T R O T O R E S E A R C H : D A T A V I S U A L I Z A T I O N & C O M M O N S T A T T E S T S

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Second, you must complete your Human Subjects Review Form A and the appropriate additional forms (which differ depending on your study). These forms are on the SMWC IRB website.

All research must be reviewed by an IRB (eith er SMWC’s IRB or your own organization’s IRB) . If the project has minimal risk, it is possible to request an exemption or request an expedited review. It depends on the study and your participants. Never start a study involving human subjects until you have gained IRB approval. DePoy and Gitlin (2020) provide some good advice on setting study boundaries for an experimental type design. Boundary examples include: setting a duration for the study, determining who can participate , “the conceptual dimensions to be examined, and the type and range of questions that will be asked ” (p.21). Naturalistic-type studies and mixed methods are much more diverse in boundary setting strategies. For example, the researcher starts the study and gains context, and as they gain a better understanding of the context, they make a decision as to who they want to interview, or what data that might collect. The design is your house or roadmap. The more you plan and consider all the potential issues with your design the better prepared you will be to move forward. Although you will dive deeper into research design in later courses, a few basic approaches outline by Patricia Leavy (2017) in her Research Design book.

Research Approaches

Approach

Paradigm

Theoretical Schools

Genres

Methods

Quantitative Postpositivist Empiricism

Experiments

Randomized, quasi, single- subject Questionnaires Structured, semi- structured, in-depth, oral history, biographical minimalist, focus group Participant observation, nonparticipant observation, digital ethnography, visual ethnography Content analysis, document analysis, visual analysis, audio analysis, audiovisual analysis, historical

Survey Research

Qualitative Postpositivist Interpretive/ constructivist Critical

Empiricism Symbolic interactionism Ethnomethodology Dramaturgy Phenomenology Postmodernism Poststructuralism

Interview

Field research

Indigenous Critical race LBGQT+ Feminist

Unobtrusive methods

Mixed methods

Pragmatic

Any

Mixed Methods Sequential, convergent, nested (integrated uses of any quantitative and qualitative method)

Table 5: Leavy, P. (2017). Research Methods, p. 18

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