{"id":71,"date":"2018-02-03T07:59:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T07:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/soleona\/?p=71"},"modified":"2018-02-03T07:59:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T07:59:54","slug":"ldrs591-unit-5-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/soleona\/2018\/02\/03\/ldrs591-unit-5-response\/","title":{"rendered":"LDRS591, Unit 5, Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a response to <a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/layla11\/2018\/02\/02\/unit-5-learning-activity-5-4\/\">Layla&#8217;s post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hi Layla,<\/p>\n<p>You asked: How do you evaluate the results of a quantitative study when the information of the statistics or instruments is not clear enough? For me, if the statistical information and details of the instruments are not clearly explained, I dismiss the study as valid.<\/p>\n<p>The importance of quality and credibility of a study has been discussed time and time again, and as our learning activities emphasized this week, a lack of indicators that explain the use of an instrument or lack of analysis of the results indicate low quality results and data collection processes. Beyond failing Plano-Clark &amp; Creswell&#8217;s (2015) evaluation process, I would not use an article with more explanations because I\u00a0 would simply not understand the study in full.<\/p>\n<p>If I cannot understand the results or the instruments they used to produce the results, I do not have faith in the study or my interpretation of the study. Without understanding the process and the resulting statistics, I would find a hard time connecting the results with the purpose of the study. Also, I have a short attention span and would not find it worth my efforts to dig into this study further if the writing of the article poorly explains these important details.<\/p>\n<p>How do you handle the ambiguity of unclear procedures and statistical results?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a response to Layla&#8217;s post. Hi Layla, You asked: How do you evaluate the results of a quantitative study when the information of the statistics or instruments is not clear enough? For me, if the statistical information and details of the instruments are not clearly explained, I dismiss the study as valid. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/soleona\/2018\/02\/03\/ldrs591-unit-5-response\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LDRS591, Unit 5, Response&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27,21],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs591","tag-response","tag-unit-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/soleona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/soleona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/soleona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/soleona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/soleona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/soleona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/soleona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/soleona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/soleona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/soleona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}