Description
This course addresses the advanced qualitative and quantitative research methods. This course is a continuation of Research and Analysis I. Qualitatively, the course continues forming research questions, writing field notes, collecting, organizing, and analyzing a variety of data. Advanced methods including sampling strategies, observational and interview techniques, questionnaire construction, and data analysis are also addressed. Ethics and ethical issues in qualitative research are presented. Quantitatively, the course addresses the logic of statistical inference and hypothesis testing, and provides a study of analysis of variance and multiple regression, with a computer oriented approach. The design of multi-variable studies, multivariate data analysis, and other advanced methods using statistics computer programs will be examined.