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Humanities PhD Students in Social Sciences, Pls come in I got questions to ask
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Blofeld
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 Apr 19 2013, 08:53 PM
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1. I have a lot of objectives and research questions.
Eg. To test the relationship between xxx and yyy. (Objectives)
Eg. What is the relationship between xxx and yyy? (Research Question)
2. Yes, I have a lot of hypotheses.
3. Cross-sectional for sure.
4. It's a full quantitative study.
5. Adopt and adapt the measurement for sure. It's not recommended to develop your own scale because it's like reinventing the wheel unless you cannot really find any measurement for the variable you are examining.
6. Self rating, multiple rating???
Do you mean multiple sources vs single source of data?
I will be collecting data from a single source only.
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Blofeld
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Apr 20 2013, 01:27 AM
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QUOTE(seanwc101 @ Apr 19 2013, 10:48 PM) I think it applies to both qualitative and quantitative equally. Point number 6. in the article - "Assume something you are doing is new because you have not read enough to know that an academic wrote a book on it 20 years ago" is something that always in my mind. Whenever I read thesis or papers claiming that, I'm impressed but at the same time feeling skeptical. I'd think "Maybe the researcher didn't read much/unaware of similar studies. Do you measure direct relationship? (e.g., A correlates with C), or indirect relationship (e.g., A correlates with C through B)? Yes, I meant multiple sources of data collection. I will collect data from two sources. I also will adapt the measurement. Cos there's existing measurement and to develop a new one could take years... My initial plan is to collect quantitative data, but at last changed to mixed methods. Yes, I will test for mediating indirect effects. By right, one shouldn't waste time testing for direct effects from A to C. By including a mediator, one should be able to establish that A is already strongly related to C from past empirical studies. That's the reason why we just need to test the indirect effects. |
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