LibGuides: PSY-7103: Lesson 5 Resources

Lesson 5 Required Resources

Achieving Alignment
Miles, A. D. (2022). Achieving alignment: How to develop research alignment in a dissertation study. Academia.
This article provides information to help novice researchers understand how to achieve research alignment. It includes helpful information about what alignment is and strategies for how you can tell if a study (published or your own proposed work) has alignment and what to do if there are alignment problems.
Research Design
Given, L. M. (2008). Research design. In The SAGE encyclopedia of qualitative research methods (pp. 762-763). SAGE Publications, Inc.
This encyclopedia entry provides excellent information about how aspects of qualitative methods align with other aspects of the research, including the research problem, research questions, and design.
Research Methods in Psychology
West, K. (Academic). (2016). Research methods in psychology [Video]. SAGE Knowledge.
This video will help you see the alignment between different aspects of research.

PSY-7103 Alignment Chart
PSY-7103 Alignment Chart

Lesson 5 Assignment Additional Resources

Your course textbook can be accessed via the Redshelf link in the Getting Started module.

Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology. Integrating Diversity with Quantitative, Qualitative and Mixed Methods

Mertens, D. M. (2019). Research and evaluation in education and psychology. Integrating diversity with quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods (5th ed.). Sage Publications.

Read pages 118-121 with information on research questions and hypotheses and the relationship between types of research questions and research design.