Unit 5/ Post
Part A1: Compare and Contrast the Elements of The Method and Results Section of Qualitative and a Quantitative Research Report
( Plavoie, 2016)
(Adapted From Strong, 2018)
Resource Evaluated
Hunter, E. M., Neubert, M. J., Perry, S. J., Witt, L. A., Penny, L. M., & Weinberger, E. (2013). Servant leaders inspire servant followers: Antecedents and outcomes for employees and the organization. Leadership Quarterly, 24(2), 316-331.
Part A2: Evaluation of the Research Design (Adapted from: Plano – Clark & Creswell, 2015) 2.85/3
Part B: Evaluation of the Participants and Data Collections (adapted from: Plano – Clark & Creswell, 2015): 2.55/3
Part C: Evaluation of the Data Analysis and Results (adapted from: Plano – Clark & Creswell, 2015) 2.22/3
Wiley (nd). ( adapted from: Plano- Clark & Creswell, 2015)
Part D
The following elements need to be considered while reading the research methods section. The first is the design of the research. It will set the tone of the section by giving clues about the size and the representability of the participants. It will affect the validities (internal and external), and the ways data are collected (Plano – Clark and Creswell, 2015). The second element includes the participants and the data collection. This element will determine the way variables are manipulated and instruments are used to conduct the study. It also affects the internal and the external validity of the study. The third element is the result section. It comports the use of statistical data and tables, the report of relationships and influence between and among variables, the confirmation or rejection of hypothesis.
The predictability and objectivity of quantitative study made this reading easier to understand and to explore. Nevertheless, I found the result section challenging. The symbols, although explained in Plano – Clark & Creswell (2015), deserves an entire statistic course in order to be fully understood. The good news is that all the formula could be computerized, and their values reported in an excel sheet. I intend to use the information learned to better assess articles in the future. Furthermore, the chapter provided me with new vocabularies professionally and personally relevance. Finally, I gained a level of comfort reading the result section of a quantitative study which I skimmed in the past.
Plano – Clark & Creswell (2015) asserted that the strength of the validly is highly dictated by the design of the study. Is it possible to design a study with high internal and external validity? can a study intentionally involved experiment and survey?
References
Hunter, E. M., Neubert, M. J., Perry, S. J., Witt, L. A., Penny, L. M., & Weinberger, E. (2013). Servant leaders inspire servant followers: Antecedents and outcomes for employees and the organization. Leadership Quarterly, 24(2), 316-331.
Plano-Clark, V., & Creswell, J. (2015). Understanding research: A consumer’s guide (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.
Plavoie, M. ( 2016). Using qualitative and quantitative research-in-cx[Cartoon]. Retrieved October 19, 2018, from http://www.inspeier.com/blog/2016/3/4/using-qualitative-and-quantitative-research-in-cx
Strong, H. (2018). Unit 5 Learning Activities. Retrieved from https://create.twu.ca/ldrs591/unit-5-learning-activities/
Wiley, M. (n.d.). Researcher Cartoon and Comic[Cartoon]. Retrieved October 19, 2018, from https://www.google.ca/search?q=research design cartoons&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjcueKDnZPeAhVIFTQIHamrCRkQsAR6BAgFEAE&biw=1053&bih=642#imgrc=UJTyKxz6lH0rOM:
Hi, I really like the use of the cartoons in your blog. It brings a bit of humour, makes it more readable, and the first cartoon was actually instructive. Great work!
I am glad to hear that you used to skim the results section in the past as well! You and I will both need to be responsible for what we have learned and train ourselves not to do that anymore.
I like your questions, and hope that I will get to read Dr. Strong’s responses. I think that I have read research reports that I think would have been defined as an experimental study that used survey information, but I don’t have an example to provide.
Thank you also for indirectly teaching me how to insert the tables into my blog. I saw that format on your post last week, and also in the post of another fellow student, so I decided to try it. It was my first time, and I have some work to do to figure out how you got yours large enough to see on the screen without clicking on it to enlarge it, but I am pleased that I have a new and better way to present the material and I have you to thank for “showing” me that.
Dear Edenguessi,
Thank you for your post regarding quantitative research reports. Below I have provided a few points to just clarify what a few of these terms mean and how the study was conducted.
– The research design is not always identified in an article explicitly. Plano-Clark and Creswell (2015) have provided a helpful table and diagram to discern what type of study design is used. You can find the tables on pages 195 and 196 and the diagram in on page 197.
– The purpose of the Hunter et al., study was to test the relationship between personality, servant leadership, and critical follower and organizational outcomes.to examine the relationship between leadership characteristics and follower characteristics and to examine mediators of this relationship. Mediators explain how a set of variables can explain “why” one variable may be related to another. This study was a non-experimental correlational design because the authors did not manipulate any variables and data was collected at one time point.
– Internal and external validity are also described on page 246 and 247 of the Plano-Clark and Creswell (2015) text. Internal validity is the effort that is taken by the researchers to control for possible confounding variables. A confounding variable is a variable that influences both the dependent variable and independent variable. If it is not controlled for then the researcher may analyze and interpret the results incorrectly. External validity has to do with obtaining a representative sample so that when the researcher analyzes and interprets the results that they can generalize results to a larger population and other settings. So to answer your question, yes a study can have high internal and external validity.
And yes studies can use both a survey and an experiment. This is how I conducted my own research. Surveys (questionnaires) were used to capture the variables of interest before and after manipulation, Participants in my studies were randomly assigned to different “treatment” groups (so the treatment variable was manipulated). Results were analyzed to examine differences between the two groups. I hope that has answered your question. Let me know if you have any more!
Dr. Strong
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