Sunday, 8 April 2012

-QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH-

Quantitative Research (part 3)
Correlational Research
>Study on the relationship between two variables; whether they are related or not.

The Purposes

>to help explain important human behaviours
            >explanatory studies
>to predict likely outcome
            >prediction studies
Basic Steps in Correlational Research
>problem selection
>sample selection
>instruments
>design and procedures
>data collection
>data analysis and interpretation

Threats to Internal Validity in Correlational Research
>Subject characteristics
>Location
>Instrumentation
            >Instrument Decay
            >Data Collector Characteristics
            >Data Collector Bias
>Testing
>Mortality

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