Qualitative research

There are four specific peer review methods that the professional advocacy community relies on. In generic terms, peer review is the evaluation of work product by one or more individuals of similar expertise to ensure the quality of the work product that will be used in an advocacy campaign. In academia, peer review is often used to determine whether an academic paper is of sufficient quality to be published. Quoting peer-reviewed reports is a commonly used method in baseline advocacy,…

This essay is based on the efficacy of training for Support Staff in the management of dysphagia in people with learning disabilities (Chadwick et al.,2013), and Effectiveness of training Support Staff (Tredinnic & Cocks, 2013). The reason for choosing this subject is due to the fact that Dysphagia is an important issue for some people with learning disabilities in particular those with cerebral palsy, and also there is a high prevelance of dysphagia in people with other severe physical…

For journal number four it was an activity, from the Rebecca Jones reading. The activity was to pick a standpoint and then give the deductive reasoning and the inductive reasoning. I first want to start out with the definitions of both deductive and inductive reasoning. Rebecca Jones stated in her article titled “Finding the Good Argument or Why Bother with Logic?” that deductive reasoning is defined as a premise that is a generalization about a large class of ideas, people (etc.) and moves to a…

Assessment. Assessment according to the authors is “evaluating how effective the intervention was” (Mill, Hess and Orthman 2014 Pg. 96). In this stage the researchers look at how effective the response was. The ask questions from both the qualitative and quantitative research methods. Traditionally the data collected is from before and after. This data is then compared to find effects of the…

gallon at a time. With Blue Bell being a brand with a large following in the states they are sold in, a research team from The University of North Texas became interested in brand loyalty. In this day and age where there are hundreds of thousands of brands to pick and choose from, consumers are still loyal to certain brands, especially millennials. According to two recent surveys, social media research and marketing specialists concluded that millennials are just as likely as Baby Boomers…

kind of evaluation focuses on assessing whether an intervention affects a set of desirable outcomes. In the evaluation, evaluators would stick to a research method as a basis to guide an evaluation design (Chen, n.d.). This evaluation type ignores contextual factors in different evaluations. Theory-driven evaluation provides a great solution for the issue above. Theory-driven evaluators would facilitate stakeholders to clarify contextual factors and mechanisms of the program. According to these,…

The proposed research study seeks to determine whether external motivation impacts the treatment compliance of young adult outpatient substance abuse clients. Traditionally, qualitative research was viewed as the standard methodology for counseling related research; however, Good (p. 3) quantitative methods have been shown most effective in exploring the relationships among variables in humanistic research (Balkin, 2014). For the purposes of the proposed research, the relationship among…

rewards systems, I have become interested in developing my own practise in how pupil’s perceive the rewards system and how this system actually impacts upon pupil’s behaviour and progress. The school improvement plan in my placement, guidance, recent research and policies from OFSTED and the Department for Education as well as my personal interest in the topic means this investigation is relevant to the current educational climate. My placement school’s improvement plan (2015) highlights the…

There are two paradigms in research (Ellis, 2013) and the selection of paradigm and subsequent methodology depends on the purpose of the study (Polit and Beck, 2007). Qualitative paradigm focused on exploring individual’s perceptions, attitudes and experience (Ellis, 2013; Parahoo, 2014) while the quantitative study focused on measuring cause and effects by laying emphasis on the number (Polit and Beck, 2010). Both quantitative and qualitative research methods generate valuable knowledge…

Crawford, Kate, and Ryan Calo. “There Is a Blind Spot in AI Research.” Nature, vol. 538, no. 7625, 2016, p. 311. In the article There Is a Blind Spot in AI Research, Kate Crawford and Ryan Calo explain how Artificial Intelligence (AI) has already made in impact on our society. They urge readers to focus on how AI has impacted “social, cultural, and political settings.” While some of them effects are good, others are bad. It is easier now for doctors to diagnose illnesses, but doctors do not…