Program evaluation

CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY Research methodology is based on qualitative research; this type of research is designed to find out how people feel or what they think about a particular subject or institution. (Kothari)The qualitative method is “a method involving systematically gathering enough information about a particular person, social setting, event or group to permit the researcher to effectively understand how the subject operates or functions” (Berg, 283).Qualitative research…

Qualitative and quantitative research are methods used in Sociology to explain and describe data. However, these methods contrast in different relevant aspects. According to Denscombe, M., (2010), even though, both quantitative and qualitative research use the same methods to collect the information, interviews, surveys, observations, as a primary data, and documents, as a secondary data; how the results are put and collected and how the method is conducted will determine the final result,…

Theoretical models are the building blocks for research designs. A conceptual model or framework provides a structure that guides the development of a research study and most importantly allows the researcher to link the findings of his/her study with the greater body of knowledge on the topic. By definition, a conceptual framework or model is an abstract, logical structure of meaning (Burns & Grove, 2009). If I do not have an underlying framework for a study, the results may be isolated and…

1.0 Introduction According to Sekaran & Baugie (2014), research is the process of finding solutions to a problem after a thorough study and analysis of the situational factors. In the other word, it also can be define as systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of data to answer a certain question or solve a problem. A research aim is to find the answers about something that is “unsure of” (Chua, 2012). To conduct the good research, research strategy is very important. Research…

The universities and colleges are basically offering programs and courses that are more or less similar. But different teachers are teaching these courses at different areas and time. When it comes to the cut-off score to these courses the teachers use their own way of grading them and the cut-off point is…

According to Spradley, “participating in activities, asking questions, eating strange foods, learning a new language, watching ceremonies, taking fieldnotes, washing clothes, writing letters home, tracing out genealogies, observing play, interviewing informants, and hundreds of other things, Indeed, one of the primary methods used in ethnography is participant observation, which implies that the ethnographer not only observes activities in the field setting, but also participates in them…

Each member of the team recorded their own data which can be found in tables in Appendix A. When measuring, advantages and disadvantages when noted about each device. The small slide ruler was very precise, but the downfall was that it was too short to measure longer items. The ruler was convenient to use but its precision was limited by the lack of marking smaller the sixteenths of an inch. The tape measure allows for measuring very large objects while still proving to be very precise, but…

Threads to validity are specific reasons why a person can be partly or completely wrong when making an inference. There are several threads to validity that will raise questions about an experimenter’s ability to conclude that the intervention affects an outcome and not some other factor. Internal validity regards to the internal logic and consistency of the research. If research is seen as an argument then internal validity is about the logic and consistency of this argument. It is most…

For the realization of this study is used one of the five research methods such as surveys/ interviews. I choose this method because this method give me space to get their opinion unobstructed, parent have enough space to tell their experience. The perpose of this study was to understand the relationship that exist between maternal employemnt and secure attachment. To find out if early maternal employemnt effect creating a secure attachment between mother - infants. Specifically, a qualitative…

After looking over the case study for the research paper and reading it several times slowly I am understanding the points of the case, however with some parts I am still a little confused. I have broken the parts down and also have highlighted words that I do not understand and plan to get an appropriate definition which will help me to understand the case study much more clearly, and if that does not help I will ask my group members and also you if I need any further clarification. For the…