Research Goals and Research Questions:
Qualitative or Quantitative?
Given that you now know the philosophical differences in qualitative and qualitative research, you should now be able to distinguish between those types of research goals. See this list attached of research goals and research questions. 1) Match the research goal to the research question(s) and 2) identify them as either qualitative or quantitative (no mixed methods yet), and 3) explain WHY it is so. Use the table below to cut/paste the goals and questions into and provide your answers. Look for specific key words to help you differentiate between qualitative and quantitative, and remember that the “why” answer is vital.
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Research Goal |
Research Question |
Research Type |
Reasons for Research Type |
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The goal of this study was to examine the relationships of transformational leadership and organization climate with working alliance in a children’s mental health service system. |
The current study investigates whether organizational factors such as climate and leadership can also be related to the quality of interactions between providers and clients. |
Quantitative |
The research question asks about how multiple variables are related to one another. There are keywords like “examine relationships”, “be related to”, etc. |
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The purpose of the current study is to explore how teachers may shape girls’ aspirations towards STEM careers. |
What is the role of teacher talk in girls’ pursuit of and attitudes towards STEM careers? |
Qualitative |
Key words include “to explore”, which is more commonly used with a non-hypothesis qualitative exploration. In addition, a study looking at “teacher talk” is harder to quantify in numbers, as it’s about their language/words, which indicates the method may be interviews. |
Research Goal
1. The goal of this study is to investigate whether leaders' well-being, in the form of positive affect and job stress, can be explained by leader-member exchange (LMX) quality at the group level of analysis.
2. What is the process of negotiating and reaching consensus within a particular social structure?
3. The purpose of this study is to explore how spousal carers of people with MS interpreted their lived experience with their partner, the way in they assigned meaning to their being in such a situation, and the skills and knowledge they have developed to live with their situation.
4. The purpose of this study was to investigate decision-making experiences and the social psychological processes family member surrogates use for health care decisions as they related to decision making with and for a terminally ill family member.
5. The purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which leaders' and teams' goals work together to affect a range of outcomes when their teams fail to regulate (i.e., when they focus exclusively on one particular type of goal). We explicitly focused on learning and performance goals because this distinction is perhaps the most obvious and salient type of goal tension in work organizations.
6. What role does friendship play in girls’ developing sense of self? Specifically, does girls’ friendship provide a form of resilience as they transition from childhood to adolescence?
7. This study will examine the roles of experiential opportunities, organization-initiated cross-cultural experiences (i.e., those found in leadership development programs) and non-work cross-cultural experiences.
8. The goal of this study is to analyze the conditions under which women are promoted to top leadership positions and exploring the challenges they face post-promotion.
Research Questions
1. What do caregivers define as successful day-to-day experience?
2. How do girls describe the development of their sense of self during transition from childhood to adolescence?
3. Does group-level analysis of leader-member exchange explain leaders’ psychological states of leader well-being, in the form of positive affect and job stress?
4. After promotion, do female leaders experience a lack of support and/or challenges to their leadership?
5. What barriers do caregivers have in their everyday life?
6. Do leaders’ relatively immutable personality characteristics (i.e., the Big Five) affect global leadership competencies?
7. How did legal family member-surrogates honor self-determination with imperatives of caring for ill family member?
8. What are the potential benefits of having leaders and work teams pursue compensatory goals?
9. How do stakeholders enter into negotiations and what motivates and constrains them during this process?
