Quantitative and Qualitative Research Mini-Proposals Quantitative Research Design Introduction Area of Interest and Statement of the Issue. My primary area of research interest is the influence of sexism in media propaganda upon the self-esteem of Black American teen girls and young women. Queries into propaganda research and the influence on gender and racist stereotypes have revealed no direct studies of… Read More
Reflections on Correlational Research and Locke et al (Chapters 6-9), Rashid, et al’s Relationship between home literacy environment and reading achievement in children with reading disabilities, and Zelenski, et al’s The happy-productive worker thesis revisited While, I still don’t see a benefit to relying upon quantitative studies to the exclusion of all others when complex conversations, action research, and asset-based community development yield so much more nuance into a study, I do see the benefits of employing some quantitative methods to determine a direction for a qualitative study, but I’ll… Read More
Reflections on Locke, et al’s Reading and understanding research (Chapters 6-9), Creswell’s Quantitative Methods, and Krause et al’s Exploring interpersonal relationships and music listening survey While a research methods class isn’t necessarily an ideal venue to receive revelations of a personal nature, the latest readings on quantitative analysis have made me aware of how my ever devouring mind works as it continues to seek out and absorb valuable information and higher-level knowledge. Here, there is the qualitative side that is… Read More
Reflections on Locke, Silverman, Spirduso’s Reading and understanding research Quantitative Methods and MacDonald, Friedman, and Kuentzel’s A survey of measures of spiritual and transpersonal constructs: Part one The process of constantly contemplating a research topic from one class to another serves an interesting purpose in my mind. It causes me to constantly rethink this topic and others that I have dwelled on for the last few years. I see this as a powerful engagement with the topic of gender and racism propaganda,… Read More