Research Methods Journals
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Creswell, J. W., & Creswell, J. D. (2018). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches (5th ed.). SAGE. https://online.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781506386690 ***Each journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.*** Journal One How did the information in this unit change your thinking about business research? In what ways was this information familiar, and in what ways was it foreign? Discuss ways these ideas could be applied to questions or dilemmas you are facing at your current employment, at your own business venture, or within your personal life. Journal Two Think of some challenges you have faced in your current or previous employment. Summarize the problem, develop a research question, and state the null and alternative hypotheses that could be used to solve this problem. Explain whether the hypotheses are concerned with relationships between variables or differences between groups. Journal Three Select a current issue within your workplace, social organization, or home, and briefly describe a workable research design to help solve that problem. Journal Four Consider your work environment, domain of interest, or the world around you, and discuss when it might be more appropriate to use the mean, median, or mode for measures of central tendency. Journal Five Think of a dependent variable within your work environment, domain of interest, or everyday life that would be valuable to predict using multiple regression. What are some independent variables that you would include in the analysis when your intuition tells you they may be related to the dependent variable? Journal Six Reflect on some of the ways ANOVA could be used to compare means within your work environment or domain of interest. Journal Seven As a researcher, how might you mitigate the risk of harm to human participants? Under what circumstances do you feel the benefits of a research study outweigh the potential risk or harm to human participants? Journal Eight Which aspects of research methods did you find most applicable to your life? Name one or two issues that you would be interested in studying using research methods.
