HBS Review Topic 8

Research method that when it is applied needs to strictly follow the sequence of steps and is not flexible.

• Qualitative method

• Quantitative method

• Mixed method

• No method

Why do we do social research?

• for fun and personal interest

• to earn money

• to produce new knowledge

• to be nosy

In Quantitative research there are a whole lot more respondents than when you use the Quantitative method. This is applied when executing which step of the research process?

• Approach to the problem

• preparation of progress report

• definition and slection of sample

• development of design

Reorder the following first 4 steps of the Quantitative research method:

• visualization of reach/scope of the study

• development of hypothesis

• literature review

• approach to the problem

This is the first step when doing a research

• state a problem

• an idea

• design

• literature review

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.3

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The Quantitative research method consists of _____ steps

• 9

• 10

• 11

• 8

Reorder the following last 4 steps of the Quantitative research method:

• Data collection

• Data analysis

• Definition and selection of sample

• Progress report

This step is not a step within the Quantitative research method

• literature review

• data collection

• data interpretation

• sample selection

In order not to reinvent the wheel which step/ phase do we execute when doing research?

• research design

• data collection

• definition and selection of sample

• literature review

1. In an exploratory design you do not execute this step:

• development of an hypothesis

• data analysis

• sample selection

• approach to the problem