EDR-8300

Privitera, G.J., & Ahlgrim-Delzell, L. (2019). Research methods for education. SAGE.
This resource is the course textbook. This text will help you understand the basics of research methodologies in education. For this week, concentrate on reading Chapters 2, 4, 6, & 7.
The link to the Redshelf book is located in your course in the Getting Started module and the Bookshelf link on your top navigation bar.

Booker-Zorigan, B., & Lloyd, C. (2021, June 9). EDR-8300 week 6 feasibility. [Video]. Kaltura.

Arksey, H., & Knight, P. T. (1999). Interviewing for social scientists. SAGE Publications, Ltd., https://doi.org/10.4135/9781849209335.
Read the chapter entitled Feasibility and Flexibility. This chapter will address accessing the feasibility of a study, which is critical to understanding if the study can be reasonably conducted.

National University. (2023). Graduate Study Support Center.
This resource will guide you through the issues related to feasibility that you need to think through before deciding on a study.

Copeland, K. R. (Academic). (2017). An Introduction to sample design [Video].
This video resource (12:19) gives a good overview of sampling frames, introduces common sampling methods, and discusses how to determine sample size.

Henry, G. T. (2009). Practical sampling. In L. Bickman, & D. J. Rog The SAGE handbook of applied social research methods (pp. 77-105). SAGE.
This reading differentiates the various conceptions of “population,” including general population, target population, study population, and special population. It also provides an overview of probability and non-probability sampling methods and places the sampling methodology within the context of the nature of the study, differentiating exploratory, developmental, descriptive, and explanatory approaches.

Minnaar, L., & Heystek, J. (2013). Online surveys as data collection instruments in education research: A feasible option? South African Journal of Higher Education, 27(1), 162–183.
This article addresses the feasibility of online surveys in educational settings.

DeForge, B. (Ed.) (2022). Research design principles. The SAGE encyclopedia of research design. (Vols. 1-4). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071812082.
Read the Chapter Research Design Principles. This chapter will provide an overview of the critical elements of research design.

Daniel, J. (2012). Sampling essentials: Practical guidelines for making sampling choices. SAGE. doi:10.4135/9781452272047
Retain this reference as a practical guide to making sampling choices. Read Chapters 1-5, which are relatively brief. Pay particular attention to Chapter 2 on the difference between taking a census and sampling as students often struggle with this in a practical sense.

O'Leary, Z. (Academic). (2017). Should I be working with existing data? [Video]. SAGE Research Methods.
This is an excellent video resource (10:11) in describing the efficacy of using secondary/archival data, the process of meta-analysis, and the utility of using existing data, especially in applied research contexts. It also suggests ways of supplementing archival data with primary data collection.

Almazan, E. P. (Speaker). (2017). An introduction to secondary data analysis [Video]. SAGE Research Methods.
This brief (4:48) video is an excellent resource on the benefits of using secondary data. It provides some useful tips on data management in secondary data and identifies a number of sources of large publicly available secondary data sources.