Strategies to unlock your research potential

1. Strategies to unlock your research potential

2. Eighth BiennialNational Health Occupations Curriculum ConferenceHouston, TX October 29 – Nov 2, 2002

3. by • Janice R. Sandiford, PhD • College of Education • Florida International University • Miami, FL 33199 • (305) 348-3996 • sandifor@fiu.edu

4. Objectives • Realize your research potential • Begin to think of some research topics • Conduct some research in your field • Guide your students in the conduct of research • Publish your research

5. Unlock the puzzle

6. Research Process • Inductive • Deductive • Involves methodology • Quantitative • Qualitative

7. The Research Process Conceptual framework (theory, literature Inductive Deductive Data Analysis Research Questions/hypothesis Proposition * Empirical observation Data collection Rudestam & Newton

8. Actual Process • Select a topic • Review the literature • Determine the method • Collect the data • Analyze the data • Write the report

9. Select a topic • Topic of interest to you • Manageable • Personably meaningful • Emotionally unattached • Useful to others • Willing to share

10. What topics have you considered?

11. What questions do you have about the topic? Demonstrate the truth Uncover a process Re evaluate other studies Resolve a problem Test a theory Explain a phenomenon

12. How can we turn those questions into research questions? Relationship between variables, phenomena, concepts or ideas

13. I wonder I wonder ? ? I wonder I wonder ? ? ? I wonder

14. Brainstorm Concept Mapping

15. Check point • Is the question clear and researchable? • Is the question within the context of previous study? or . . . • Is there a definable theory?

16. Select a Topic

17. Review the literatureThorough review • Expands upon the relationship between the proposed study and what has already been presented. • Discusses the distinction between previous research • Guides the reader • Selective but thorough

18. Review the literatureIn search of theory • Clarifies the relationship between the proposed study and demonstrates why it is important • Indicates distinction between previous research • Develops a theme • Selective

19. Refine the problem statement The purpose of the study is to . . .

20. Refine the Problem

21. Determine the method • The Purpose of the study - the research question - drives the methodology

22. Research Plan • What is the type of study design? • What must be done to “tighten” the design? • Have the extraneous variables been considered? • Is the design defensible? • Is the population appropriate? • Does the question drive the methodology? • What instrument do you plan to use?

23. Research Plan Components • Introduction • Method • Data Analysis • Time schedule • Budget

24. Qualitative Interpretive Artistic Explores meanings Words Quantitative Experiments Surveys Generates facts Numbers Research Design

25. Experimental Descriptive Correlational Causal-Comparative Product oriented Results on facts Guiding designs Deductive Quantitative

26. Ethnography Grounded theory Case study Phenomeno-logical study Personal voice Inductive Context-based Natural setting Results in understanding Qualitative

27. Which one is best?

28. The problem drives the method

29. The hardest part of doing research is the plan

30. The second hardest part of doing research is the time it takes to produce a good plan

31. Determine the method

32. Collect the data • Subjects - population - sample • Instrument to measure construct you are trying to measure • Human subject clearance • Informed consent • Collect the data

33. Analyze the data • Statistical technique or techniques to be used • Driven by the hypotheses • Determined by • how groups formed • how many treatments • independent variables • kind of data

34. Analyze the data • Included in plan • Obtain assistance • Computer very handy tool to use in analyzing data • Find appropriate software • op scan • input direct

35. Analyze the data • Nominal data • Ordinal data • Interval data • Ratio data • Descriptive • Inferential

36. Collect analyze, interpret the data

37. Write the report • Introduction • description of problem • review of literature • statement of hypothesis • operational terms

38. Write the report • Method • description of subjects • description of instruments • description of design • description of the procedure

39. Write the report • Results • describes statistical techniques and level of pre-determined confidence • description of results for each hypothesis

40. Write the report • Discussion • interpretation of results • conclusions • recommendations

41. Write the report • References • Appendices

42. Publish the report • Serves the interests of the professional community • Progress in research requires it • Reflects your credentials as a researcher • Could be rejected! • You might need to revise!

43. Present at a professional meeting • Share new knowledge and research findings • Watch for “call for papers” • Follow the guidelines • 10 minutes to present paper

44. Publish and present the results

45. Your Journal • Journal of Health Occupations Education • On-line at acteonline.org • Twice per year • Dr. Larry Hudson editor • Your journal • Want your research

46. You are a researcher • You have the necessary skills to conduct research • You have important data to share with your colleagues • You need to guide your students in the research process

47. Share your knowledge with others in the fieldPresent and Publish

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