{"id":247,"date":"2019-08-25T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0119\/?p=247"},"modified":"2019-08-25T10:00:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T17:00:03","slug":"research-questions-answered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0119\/research-questions-answered\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Questions Answered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. George Veletsianos is the Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Technology and a Professor in the School of Education and Technology at Royal Roads University.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Our class recently had the opportunity to present questions to him regarding research.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>From his responses, I gained a number of key insights including the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">It is essential to be knowledgeable about your research topic, including reading and understanding the relevant literature, before approaching potential participants.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This ensures potential participants that you have done your background work and have an understanding of the phenomenon you are studying.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Be conscious of your individual biases (such as your personal beliefs and gender bias).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is important to keep these biases in check.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>There is information available on ways to do this.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>For example, one way is to have multiple individuals working together to keep each others\u2019 biases in check.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Different sampling techniques are appropriate for different research studies. For example, if your study requires participants from a very specific group of people (for example, rural teachers) then snowball sampling may be helpful.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Snowball sampling involves asking your current participants to identify other potential participants as they are from that group and therefore may be able to help you identify others from that group.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Social media platforms each have advantages and disadvantages for conducting research.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The most appropriate platform depends on your research question(s) and method.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">When collecting data for research, it is important to first consider your research question(s) and method.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>For example, if you are acquiring data through interviews, 12 to 20 interviews are generally recommended.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Continue interviewing until you are confident that the new information you are getting is starting to get repetitive; this is called \u2018saturation\u2019.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is also important to consider the instruments you are using (for example, your interview script).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ethics in research is vital and, although we cannot predict what might be considered ethical in the future, the premise in research is to always minimize harm.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Many thanks to Dr. Veletsianos for his insightful responses.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I have learned that, before conducting any research, there are many things to consider beyond basic data collection and analysis, including sample type and size, methodology, ethics (including participants\u2019 wellbeing), personal biases, and appropriate uses of technology.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is the responsibility of the researcher to not only conduct research that is relevant, credible, legitimate and effective, but to do so in a way that meets or exceeds current ethical standards.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. George Veletsianos is the Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Technology and a Professor in the School of Education and Technology at Royal Roads University.\u00a0 Our class recently had the opportunity to present questions to him regarding research.\u00a0 From his responses, I gained a number of key insights including the following: It is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0119\/research-questions-answered\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Research Questions Answered&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}