CMNS 262 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sample Size Determination, Bilingual Education

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 262
• Professor: Daniel Ahadi

Document Summary

Depe(cid:374)ds o(cid:374) type of (cid:395)uestio(cid:374)s you"(cid:396)e aski(cid:374)g. May have to do documentary research on top of other research methods. Tools in the toolbox of methods we use. Primary research: documentary research for: historical analysis, meta-a(cid:374)alysis of p(cid:396)io(cid:396) wo(cid:396)ks (cid:894)(cid:862)study of studies(cid:863)(cid:895) Justifying further research: the study of power, figuring out the context. Primary: first to release the data; raw data. Formally published: funded, blind reviewed, edited, with citations, widely distributed, discussed and debated, etc: e. g. book, scholarly piece, etc. Informally disseminated: self-published, not reviewed or edited, no sources, narrowly distributed, narrowly discussed or debated, etc: e. g. blog post. Finding trends, gathering information from large population, the sample of people you choose from is important, etc. Analyzes context in which indigenous women have gone missing and have been murdered in bc: bc is the geographical parameter. Why are they doing the research; backgrounds facts, statistics, etc.