Р. П. Мильруд Доктор педагогических наук, профессор кафедры иностранных языков
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1. What did Dr Wang mean by ‘your job as a management Master’s degree student is to use theory to help to ex- plain and even solve management problems’? 2. How might Amina improve her findings section? 3. What do you think Amina has to do to get Dr Wang’s full approval for submission of her MBA project for as- sessment? 4. How would you suggest Amina now approaches the rewriting of her report? PROGRESSING YOUR RESEARCH PROJECT Deciding on the appropriateness of data collecting and analyzing techniques • Return to your research question(s) and objectives. Decide on how appropriate it would be to use observation/ secondary data/ sampling/ interviews/ questionnaires as part of your research strategy. If you do decide that some of the technique is appropriate note down the reasons why you think it will be sensible to collect at least some of your data in this way? • If you decide that using observation/ secondary data/ sampling/ interviews/ questionnaires is suitable, decide which of the types of these methods will be more appropriate. Note down your choice and the reasons for this choice. • If you decide that one of the types of observation/ secondary data/ sampling/ interviews/ questionnaires is more appropriate, what practical problems do you foresee? How might you overcome them? What threats to validity and reli- ability are you likely to encounter? How might you overcome these? • Decide whether the data you are collecting could usefully be analysed quantitatively or qualitatively. • If you decide that your data should be analysed quantitatively you must ensure that the data collection methods you intend to use have been designed to make analysis by computer as straightforward as possible. • Once your data have been entered into a computer, you need to explore and present them. You should select the most appropriate diagrams and tables after considering the suitability of all possible techniques. • Once you are familiar with your data, describe and explore relationships using those statistical techniques that best help you to answer research questions and are suitable for the data type. • If you are collecting qualitative data, decide which of the analytical strategies are more appropriate to your re- search project. • Where your research project is based on deductive strategy, develop a set of categories from your research question(s) and objectives, conceptual framework, research themes and initial propositions. Produce description of each of these categories. • Using one of the transcript copies of interviews try to allocate units of data to appropriate categories by writing their code labels alongside the text in the left-hand margin. Again evaluate this set of categories and modify any that appear to be inappropriate. • Where your research project is based on inductive strategy, work through one of the transcript copies and seek to identify categories related to your research purpose. Write appropriate code labels for these categories alongside the text in the left-hand margin. List these categories and their labels and produce a description for each of the categories that have been devised. • Once you have allocated units of data to the set of categories in use cut these out and transfer them to an ap- propriately labeled index card. Read through the units of data within each category. жүктеу/скачать 0.69 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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