3.2: Wrap-Up

Wrap-Up

In this lesson, we covered the following topics:

• Using your personal priorities to refine your research question;
• Determining what variables and how you want to measure them in relation to your question; and
• Matching your question to different methodologies

Course 3, Lesson 3 will cover ethics and data managementData management The ways a researcher collects, organizes, stores, and accesses data they collect for research. Creating a data management plan allows a researcher to know what data they will be collecting and how they will store and organize it during the research project.. You may also be interested in the following lessons::

• Course 1, Lesson 2: Finding a Research Direction
• Course 2, Lesson 3: LIS Research Methodologies & Methods
• Course 2, Lesson 4: Exploring Methodologies That Suit Your Project

Further Learning

1. Kross, Jennifer, and Amanda Giust. “Elements of Research Questions in Relation to Qualitative Inquiry.” The Qualitative Report 24, no. 1 (2019): 24–30. doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2019.3426.
2. Mueller, Gregory R. Hancock, Laura M. Stapleton, Ralph O., ed. The Reviewer’s Guide to Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2018. doi.org/10.4324/9781315755649.
3. Onwuegbuzie, Anthony, and Nancy Leech. “Linking Research Questions to Mixed Methods Data Analysis Procedures 1.” The Qualitative Report 11, no. 3 (2006): 474–98. doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2006.1663.
4. Richard A. Krueger. “Focus Groupfocus group A research method that takes a small group of people and has a focused discussion with them. This discussion revolves around a specific topic, the participants have something in common that brings them into the same space, and do not have any pre-existing relationships with one another. A focus group also has a moderator who helps to facilitate the discussion. Interviewing,” July 9, 2015. https://richardakrueger.com/focus-group-interviewing/.
5. Wildemuth, Barbara. Applications of Social Research Methods to Questions in Information and Library Science. 2nd ed. Libraries Unlimited, 2016. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/applications-of-social-research-methods-to-questions-in-information-and-library-science-9781440839047/.

Helpful open access journals to browse

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/eblip/index.php/EBLIP/index 

Hypothesis: Research journal for health information professionals https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/hypothesis 

Library and Information Research https://lirgjournal.org.uk/index.php/lir 

The Qualitative Report https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/ 

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