What are your thoughts on research designs after tonight’s class? How important is identifying an appropriate research design for your study? What types of research designs are you considering for your study and why? Notate a research design that is consistent with the goals of your study.
Research designs … with so many it’s quite a difficult choice to make.
The class provided us information on the research options available and helped us identify which research design to lean towards depending on what kind of information we are attempting to obtain. It’s important to identify what research design we want to focus on in order to obtain and set up the measures the proper way. If not, we would be gathering information that’s irrelevant towards our research question.
My research would be a quantitative experiment because I’m using the measures where I’m testing an experimental design, testing a model.
In order for participants to be accepted in the study they would have to go through a certain screening. Participant screening would require individuals to be in a certain age group, over 18, in a relationship, veteran of OEF/OIF and both the participant and partner would have to be interested in therapy to improve their relationship.
After the participants are screened and accepted they would take scales on their PTSD and aggressive level. This would be a quasi-experimental design because I’m not randomly assigning people to the experiment or control. I was already going to obtain people that are looking to be in a couples therapy. The design would then be used in a comparison of pre-test/post-test design.
I think we have to be conscious of the research method we select, if not, we would be obtaining incorrect data for our research. It would not only be wasting our time and resources but the participants as well. We have to keep their treatment goals in mind when selecting the research design. An outline is needed to select and provide the best option and process to obtain the goals of our research.
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