Approach, design, and methods

CHOOSE THE MOST APPROPRIATE TERM TO MATCH THE DEFINITIONS. PRIMARY DATA Results that you generate yourself through your research methodEXPLAIN An approach that focuses on gathering more in-depth information about a smaller groupEXPLORE This approach requires that you have a hypothesis to prove or disproveCREATE This approach means that your PRIMARY purpose is to create a piece of additional scholarly work such as art, music, a proposal, etc.SECONDARY DATA Information that is available to you but that someone else has generated The design pertaining to case studies, historical research, and field observation Experimental Non-experimental A more inductive approach to a project, observing and looking for patterns Experimental Non-experimental Focus on objectivity and being able to generalize findings Quantitative Qualitative Mixed methods An example would be a mass-distributed survey complemented by in-depth interviews of selected respondents. Quantitative Qualitative Mixed methods QUALITATIVE methods usually result in papers with extensive descriptions and narrative (NOT charts, graphs and data tables).One advantage of using PRIMARY data is that you have control over all aspects of the design, time frame of project, etc. and you can make sure your data fits your purpose perfectly.If your purpose is to CREATE you must know enough about your topic to identify variables to measure.If you say your approach is to EXPLAIN but you really want to invent an intervention and test its effectiveness, your project is misaligned.If you looked for patterns among census statistics on life expectancy and geographical location, this would be a(n) NON-EXPERIMENTAL design using SECONDARY DATA. A(n) EXPLORE approach is best for a topic about which very little is known and it’s too soon to look for relationships between variables.