Help Please!
Posted 10-23-2009 at 01:40 AM by Silver Frog
Hi There,
This is part of my final assignment for the compulsory Research Methodology subject for my Master's degree. I am studying on line and basically that means teaching myself at this particular institution. I had to design a research project and explain how I would carry it out - we don't actually conduct the research.
My aim is to find out what kind of writing adults do in their daily lives after they finish formal education.
I chose a qualitative simple descriptive design with a survey. My question is probably so basic as to be embarrassing but I am really having trouble deciding which 'things' I do with the results. For instance the lecture notes talk about descriptive statistics - a written 'summary' of the data - is this ALL I would give with my analysis because I chose a simple descriptive design?
The lecture notes also talk about things like chi squares - but I don't have a 'change' to discuss - t-tests; but I don't have 2 groups to work with (and it is not relevant to divide the group into male and female - or is it!!!
).
Then I start wondering if I should consider the kinds of writing they do as the 'groups' - and look at the ANOVA.
Obviously I am NEVER going to conduct my own research but I really have to get through this assignment. I have answered the other 3 parts to the question easily enough and I'm prepared to put in the hard work to finish this bit but I honestly don't understand how to figure out what I should do with the data.
Even a teensy clue would be appreciated
This is part of my final assignment for the compulsory Research Methodology subject for my Master's degree. I am studying on line and basically that means teaching myself at this particular institution. I had to design a research project and explain how I would carry it out - we don't actually conduct the research.
My aim is to find out what kind of writing adults do in their daily lives after they finish formal education.
I chose a qualitative simple descriptive design with a survey. My question is probably so basic as to be embarrassing but I am really having trouble deciding which 'things' I do with the results. For instance the lecture notes talk about descriptive statistics - a written 'summary' of the data - is this ALL I would give with my analysis because I chose a simple descriptive design?
The lecture notes also talk about things like chi squares - but I don't have a 'change' to discuss - t-tests; but I don't have 2 groups to work with (and it is not relevant to divide the group into male and female - or is it!!!). Then I start wondering if I should consider the kinds of writing they do as the 'groups' - and look at the ANOVA.
Obviously I am NEVER going to conduct my own research but I really have to get through this assignment. I have answered the other 3 parts to the question easily enough and I'm prepared to put in the hard work to finish this bit but I honestly don't understand how to figure out what I should do with the data.
Even a teensy clue would be appreciated
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