Trident DOC670 2020 January Module 3 CASE Latest

DOC670 Applied Statistics for Research

Module 3 Case

OBTAINING THE DATA FOR THE RESEARCH CONTEXT

Assignment Overview

In this Case Assignment, you will be reading several articles and sources about sampling, about participant recruitment and interaction, and about managing the relationship between research participants and researchers. You will then be asked to think about how these issues apply to your project and your research questions, and to develop an appropriate sampling plan for your study taking all these issues into consideration.

As the course progresses, you will be making a series of decisions in which you will increasingly specify the structure of your project. These decisions build on each other in critical ways. However, you are not locked into previous decisions if you subsequently decide you need to change direction. As before, you have an opportunity to go back and revise and/or extend the previous sections completed in previous modules. If you do revise earlier sections, please include them and indicate what changes you have made to them. Case grades given for the first four modules will be advisory rather than final. Your ultimate grade will be based on the completed methodology at the end of the course.

Case Assignment

Prepare a 5- to 7-page paper in accordance with the following Assignment Expectations, describing the sampling issues for your project, in accordance with the following outline:

Identify the organization within which you are going to be constructing your project, and the nature of the problem that you are investigating.

Identify the general kinds of respondents within the organization, and the kinds of information that you will need to collect from each group of people in order to complete your project.

Complete the following grid describing the respondents in your project and some things about them:

Identify any additional issues which you think might arise in terms of obtaining cooperation from your respondents or that might complicate getting the information that you need.