...THE QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH APPROACH Chapter 2 RESEARCH STEPS WITHIN THE QUANTITATIVE APPROACH • Step 1: Identify a Problem Area • Step 2 & 3: Review & Evaluate Literature • Step 4 & 5: Be aware of ethical & cultural issues • Step 6: State Research Question or hypothesis • Step 7 & 8: Select research approach & decide measures • Step 9 & 10: Select a Sample & Data Collection Method THE QUANTITATIVE APPROACH (Continued) • Step 11: Collect and Code the Data • Step 12: Data Analysis • Step 13 & 14: Write & Disseminate the report DEVELOPING THE RESEARCH QUESTION – Developing Concepts – Identifying Variables within Concepts – Putting Value Labels on Variables – Defining Independent and Dependent Variables – Constructing Hypotheses Developing Concepts • Giving a name to an idea that you want to study (e.g., ethnicity) Identifying Variables Within Concepts • Consider all the dimensions that make up the concept (e.g., race, culture, identity, societal grouping) • Selecting a dimension of the concept to be measured (e.g., ethnic group) • Operationalization: the process of naming and defining variables for your study Putting Labels on Variables • Labeling the “units” to be measured for the selected dimension (e.g., Ethnic groups may include: Asian, Caucasian, Hispanic, African American, Native American) Defining Independent and Dependent Variables • Bivariate Relationship: a research question that includes only two variables • a one-variable question is...
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