SCS 2150 Lecture Notes - Causal Model, Hypothesis

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: SCS 2150
• Professor: Stephanie Mullen

Document Summary

Objectives: understanding the steps in research design, understanding how qual. & quant. research differ by each step in research. Design: understand the difference in quantitative and qualitative research. Research design provides the glue that holds the research project together. Step 1: type of research question: exploratory research - what questions fall into this category of research. (qualitative, descriptive research - who where when & how questions fall into this type of research category. (quantitative [survey] & qualitative. [observation etc]: explanatory research - why research questions. (questions about causality quantitative [experiment]) To explain & predict - to describe & explain. To confirm & validate - to explore & interpret. To build theory: logical approach, certainty to findings. Representative, large sample - informative, small sample. Step 6 & 7: testing hypothesis & reflecting back on theory. General to specific - specific to general. Begin with specific - observe the world & Statistics, - narratives, aggregated data individual quotes.