Time Series Design Components
Time series designs are one of several ways that data can be looked at and collected when doing research on any particular topic. When doing your research, you want to choose the method of data collection that will best suit your study. For some, a time series design would be the best method, for others it may be a qualitative collection method. For the purpose of this paper the time series design method will be described and illustrated in its methods of use.
Reflection of Time Series Design A time series design is defined as a research method in which the same data is collected over different points in time. For example, taking crime ratings in the same neighborhood each summer, to see if police presence …show more content…
The simplest of them being, a simple phase change model. This is a model in which you take a baseline behavior, for example smoking, and you measure this behavior over a extended period of time. Then the intervention is introduced (nicotine patch), after the intervention is introduced the same behavior is measured again to record the effectiveness of the intervention. This is a very simple cut and dry method, there are not very many if all any special procedures of the model and the advantages are, you have a simple collection of data, but this also can be a disadvantage, as you may have other variables affecting your outcome that you are not measuring. Again, it is very simple and very black and …show more content…
In using a time series deign for data collection, I could see if exposure of the effects of cyber bullying could reduce the frequency and strength of such bullying within my campus. I could launch a 6 week program in which students are exposed to speakers, videos and surveys that show the effects cyber bullying has on teens on their campus. I would measure the students’ knowledge and participation of cyber bullying first with a survey created to question the amount of cyber bullying a student encounters and participates in on any given day. This data would be measured as the baseline measurement. Then I would expose the students to a speaker, a video, and even their own survey results once a week for 6 weeks. During this time, each student in the program would be surveyed to see the affects the intervention is having. Then at the end of the six week program a final survey would be taken. I would then follow up in 30 days to see the long term effect of the program to see if there was a negative, positive or null outcome of the intervention. This could be done every week during the students’ advisory period, during the month of October which is the anti bullying, suicide prevention and anti drug weeks
Time series designs are one of several ways that data can be looked at and collected when doing research on any particular topic. When doing your research, you want to choose the method of data collection that will best suit your study. For some, a time series design would be the best method, for others it may be a qualitative collection method. For the purpose of this paper the time series design method will be described and illustrated in its methods of use.
Reflection of Time Series Design A time series design is defined as a research method in which the same data is collected over different points in time. For example, taking crime ratings in the same neighborhood each summer, to see if police presence …show more content…
The simplest of them being, a simple phase change model. This is a model in which you take a baseline behavior, for example smoking, and you measure this behavior over a extended period of time. Then the intervention is introduced (nicotine patch), after the intervention is introduced the same behavior is measured again to record the effectiveness of the intervention. This is a very simple cut and dry method, there are not very many if all any special procedures of the model and the advantages are, you have a simple collection of data, but this also can be a disadvantage, as you may have other variables affecting your outcome that you are not measuring. Again, it is very simple and very black and …show more content…
In using a time series deign for data collection, I could see if exposure of the effects of cyber bullying could reduce the frequency and strength of such bullying within my campus. I could launch a 6 week program in which students are exposed to speakers, videos and surveys that show the effects cyber bullying has on teens on their campus. I would measure the students’ knowledge and participation of cyber bullying first with a survey created to question the amount of cyber bullying a student encounters and participates in on any given day. This data would be measured as the baseline measurement. Then I would expose the students to a speaker, a video, and even their own survey results once a week for 6 weeks. During this time, each student in the program would be surveyed to see the affects the intervention is having. Then at the end of the six week program a final survey would be taken. I would then follow up in 30 days to see the long term effect of the program to see if there was a negative, positive or null outcome of the intervention. This could be done every week during the students’ advisory period, during the month of October which is the anti bullying, suicide prevention and anti drug weeks