Think About Studies

This task involves a multi-step process to address the underlying research or evaluation question of your eventual mixed methods proposal. Please follow the directions below.

  1. Open a blank copy of the following Word icon

  2. Put your name in the top left corner

  3. Create a four column table with the following headers

    question

    approach

    measure

    latent

    trustworthiness

    where the

    1. question is a possible underlying research or evaluation question that you would like to study

    2. approach is a list of all possible quantitative and/or qualitative approaches you anticipate may be used to address the question

    3. measure is the direct quantitative measure

    4. latent is the overall quantitative latent construct

    5. trustworthiness is a short description of the essential qualitative characteristics or markers needed to assess the quality of the study

  4. Submit this document to eCampus.

Please note that if you do not know or are unsure of the meaning of a direct measure, latent construct, and/or trustworthiness please include the column names but leave the values blank. We will cover these concepts later in the term


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