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Effective Research Methods for Any Project

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Overview

Learn practical and proven research techniques you can use in both your professional and personal life.

Syllabus

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  • 01: Why Research Methods Matter
  • 02: Characteristics of Good Research
  • 03: Doing Research Ethically
  • 04: From Topic of Interest to Research Question
  • 05: What’s Already Known? The Literature Review
  • 06: Generating Hypotheses and Theories
  • 07: Selecting a Research Design
  • 08: Measuring Concepts and Phenomena
  • 09: Choosing Populations, Samples, and Cases
  • 10: The Classic Experiment
  • 11: The Value of Quasi Experiments
  • 12: Designing and Conducting a Survey
  • 13: Understanding Election Polls
  • 14: Research by Case Study
  • 15: Interpretivism and Field Research
  • 16: Applied, Evaluative, and Action Research
  • 17: Gathering and Preparing Data
  • 18: Using Statistics to Interpret Data
  • 19: Statistical Inferences from Data
  • 20: Assessing Correlation and Causation
  • 21: From Bivariate to Multivariate Analysis
  • 22: Foundations of Qualitative Analysis
  • 23: Qualitative Analysis Variations
  • 24: The Art of Presenting Your Findings

Taught by

Amanda M. Rosen

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