Description
Research Methods Literature Review
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the qualitative and quantitative research designs encountered so far in this course.
For your literature review, you will select one design from each of the following categories.
Category |
Non-experimental |
Quantitative experimental |
Qualitative |
Mixed methods |
Designs |
Descriptive |
Pretest-posttest control group |
Ethnography |
Explanatory |
Visit the Research Methods research guide in the Ashford University
Library and search the databases for a minimum of one peer-reviewed
journal article published within the last 10 years about each of the
research designs you selected. The articles must not be research studies
using the designs. Instead, they must be about how to conduct a study
using the design. Examples of acceptable articles for this assignment
are listed at the Suggested Articles tab in the Research Methods
research guide.
In your paper, briefly outline the topic you
selected for your Final Research Proposal in Week One and apply the
scientific method by suggesting both a specific research question and a
hypothesis for the topic. Evaluate your chosen peer-reviewed articles
summarizing each and explaining how the research design described could
be useful for designing original research on your topic. Compare and
contrast the paradigms or worldviews inherent in the methodology
associated with each research design. Apply professional standards and
situate yourself as a researcher by identifying which of these
approaches best fits with your worldview.
The Research Methods Literature Review
- Must be four to six double-spaced pages in length (not including title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
- Must include a separate title page with the following:
- Title of paper
- Student’s name
- Course name and number
- Instructor’s name
- Date submitted
- Must use at least four peer-reviewed sources published within the last 10 years.
- Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
- Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
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Research methods literature review
Sensation is a process whereby an individual utilizes the senses of smell, taste, sound,
touch, and sight to sense the environment. This message is then conveyed to their brains in a raw
mode when perception comes into play. Perception involves the interpretation of such sensations
and thus makes sure that individuals have a sense of the environment around them, (Goldstein,
2008). The research question was on whether when people smell a fragrant flower, are they
experiencing a perception or a sensation? The hypothesis tested was, therefore, most individuals
experience perceptions when they feel things around them, such as the fragrance of a flower. As
such, this paper seeks to evaluate how survey research, Solomon four-group, phenomenological,
and exploratory research designs can be used to design original research on this topic.
The article, “Understanding and Evaluating Survey Research” by Julio Ponto (2015),
defines survey as a method of gathering information from a sample of individuals by asking
them questions and obtaining their responses (Ponto, 2015). When an individual is using survey
design to conduct specific research, he or she collects data from a particular sample of
individuals by using different methods such as closed-ended and open-ended questions,
observations, as well as interviews. It is the most commonly used nonexperimental research
design because it facilitates the collection of the significant amount of survey data from some
individuals who are taken as the sample to represent the rest of the population through the use of
a variety of metho...