Literature Question

Discussion Question

This week’s focus is quantitative research methods and how researchers use them to explain the outcome(s) of their study. Please post something to the discussion board related to the content covered this week.

Note: Do not create your post as a reply to the pinned post. Instead, use Yellowdig’s Create option to create a new post.

Here are some ideas for your post to get you started:

Topic: Navigating Change in Healthcare Environments

Consider a research topic of your choice that could be studied quantitatively. Try creating a research hypothesis and share what variables you might include in your study. What things might you need to consider when selecting participants for your study?

What research question most interests you in your field or line of work? Briefly, how might you utilize quantitative methods to approach a study on that topic?

After completing the readings for this week, share which reading most interested you or you felt was most immediately relevant to your own professional or academic career.

Response Guidelines

• As you respond to your classmates, share your experiences and anecdotal feedback regarding their posts. How have your personal experiences resonated with their ideas? What can you add to their ideas, building upon the connections you have made to the material so far? Consider exploring the features of Yellowdig, such as your ability to embed videos and pictures, create polls and videos, use hashtags, love or like a post, and so on.
• Overview Assignment
• This assignment focuses on methodology and the method you might use to address your topic and questions, keeping in mind that the questions should guide the method and that particular questions lend themselves to particular methods. As you find additional library articles related to your topic, focus on the methodology in use: do you see alignment among the problem, questions, and the methods chosen? Why or why not? If you had conducted this study, would you have gone about it in the same way?

Instructions

Using 10 additional articles on your potential topic, include the following in your short MS Word document:

Summarize the articles paying particular attention to the methodology used.

What was the identified problem?

What questions were asked?

What method or methods were used?

Did the methods align with the problem and questions?

• What were the outcomes of the study?

Would you have conducted this study in the same way? Why or why not?

• Identify ethical issues or concerns related to the topic and/or theory.
• As a scholar-practitioner, apply conventions of voice, academic tone, and discipline-specific language.
• Additional Requirements