After tonight’s class my thoughts on research designs have broadened. Although the jargon can be a bit intimidating, I found the content to be interesting with the given examples. I think that the sources of measurement error was an important section. After all, if researchers supplied data that was often flawed; that being neither reliable and/ or neither valid, we would have to operate in a guesstimated world. In the errors in alternative sources of data section, Self-Reports, Direct Observation and even Examining Available Records can all be less costly and time consuming for a researcher but may also produce the most inaccurate reports when reliability is needed.
Identifying an appropriate research design for my study is important, because I will be using qualitative, as well as quantitative research methods to complete the assignment. I must be able to distinctively express the differences in the two methods on which I obtained my results. The research design I would rely on for my study will possibly be “inter-observer reliability or inter-rater reliability- the term for the degree of agreement or consistency between or among observers. Although face validity research can be subjective or bias, it appears to be an exercise that I will depend on, due to my interest being the personal perspective of a certain group of people.
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