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    This document discusses research design and methods. It defines a research design as a plan for collecting and analyzing data to increase understanding of a topic. There are two primary categories of research design: designs for description, which include cross-sectional, time series, and case studies; and designs for explanation, which include experiments and quasi-experiments. Philosophical worldviews provide context for why researchers choose certain designs, such as postpositivism preferring quantitative methods or social constructivism relying on participants' views. Strategies of inquiry refer to specific quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research designs that provide procedures for a study.

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    This document discusses research design and methods. It defines a research design as a plan for collecting and analyzing data to increase understanding of a topic. There are two primary categories of research design: designs for description, which include cross-sectional, time series, and case studies; and designs for explanation, which include experiments and quasi-experiments. Philosophical worldviews provide context for why researchers choose certain designs, such as postpositivism preferring quantitative methods or social constructivism relying on participants' views. Strategies of inquiry refer to specific quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research designs that provide procedures for a study.

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    This document discusses research design and methods. It defines a research design as a plan for collecting and analyzing data to increase understanding of a topic. There are two primary categories of research design: designs for description, which include cross-sectional, time series, and case studies; and designs for explanation, which include experiments and quasi-experiments. Philosophical worldviews provide context for why researchers choose certain designs, such as postpositivism preferring quantitative methods or social constructivism relying on participants' views. Strategies of inquiry refer to specific quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research designs that provide procedures for a study.

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    Research design - A research design is a blueprint to guide the research

    process by laying out how a study will move from the research purpose/questions to the
    outcomes. It is a comprehensive planning process used to collect and analyze data in
    order to increase the understanding of a given topic. research designs are plans and the procedures for
    research that span the decisions from broad assumptions to detailed methods of data
    collection and analysis. research designs are plans and the procedures for
    research that span the decisions from broad assumptions to detailed methods of data
    collection and analysis.

    Research methods - experiments, survey research,


    qualitative field research, unobtrusive research, and evaluation research. Research methods consist of three
    elements: (a) the forms of data collection; (b) analysis;
    and (c) interpretation that the researchers propose for their studies. The researcher may
    use quantitative methods like close-ended questions or numeric data in data collection
    and use statistical analysis and interpretation methods to get the overall results. Alternatively, a researcher may
    use qualitative methods like open-ended questions or interviews to collect data, and use text and image analysis
    or themes and patterns
    interpretation to get the overall results. Finally, researchers may also mix different
    methods to collect, analyze, and interpret data to get their results

    two primary categories of research designs: designs


    for description and designs for explanation

    Cross-sectional studies, time series studies, and case studies are categorized as designs
    for description

    Experiments and quasi-experimental designs are included in designs for explanation

    Philosophical worldviews are paradigms that provide information about why researchers
    choose a specific research design

    First the postpositivist worldview represents the traditional form of


    research and is sometimes called the scientific method. Postpositivists tend to prefer
    quantitative research more often than qualitative research. Postpositivists hold a
    deterministic philosophy in which cause–effect relationships are anticipated, such as
    those found in experiments. Second, the social constructivist worldview is typically
    found in approaches based on qualitative research. Social constructivists rely on the
    participants’ views of the situation being studied. They take into consideration peoples’ life and work
    experiences to be able to understand the background of the participants. Third, the advocacy and participatory
    worldview is found in qualitative
    research, but it could also be consistent with quantitative research. Participatory
    researchers study important social issues and may allow the participants to engage as
    active collaborators in their research. In addition, a participatory worldview holds
    that research inquiry needs to appreciate politics and a political agenda. Finally, the
    pragmatist worldview arises out of actions, situations, and consequences rather than
    prior conditions. In this view, instead of focusing on methods, researchers focus on
    research problems and use all approaches that meet their needs and purposes. Pragmatists apply mixed methods
    research and form quantitative and qualitative assumptions when they engage in their research
    Strategies of inquiry are types of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed method designs that
    provide instructions for procedures in a research design. Three strategies of inquiry were
    discussed by Creswell (2008). First, quantitative strategies are the strategies of inquiry
    that are associated with quantitative research and are used by those holding the postpositivist worldview. These
    strategies include experiments, quasi-experiments, and
    correlation studies. Second are the qualitative strategies, which encompass various types
    of qualitative inquiry approaches such as narrative research, phenomenology, ethnographies, grounded theory
    studies, and case studies. Finally, the mixed methods strategies are those strategies of inquiry that employ both
    quantitative and qualitative
    approaches. These methods include sequential mixed methods where the researcher aims
    to expand the findings of one method with another one, concurrent mixed methods where
    the researcher collects quantitative and qualitative data at the same time and then
    integrates the information in the interpretation of the results, and transformative mixed
    methods where the researcher uses a theoretical lens as an overarching perspective
    within a design that contains both quantitative and qualitative data

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