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You've created your questions, completed your literature review and collected the necessary data... now its time to see what you've got and analyze your data!
As explained on the University of Wisconsin LEADERSHIP SITE for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning:
At this point in the project, it is time to analyze the evidence that you have collected. This analysis will provide answers to the questions that you posed in the beginning of the project. Again, the analysis tools that you choose should fit the questions that you asked, and the data that you collected.
Analytic tools to consider:
- close reading
- thick description
- compare against a…
This stage of your research project involves determining the methods you will use to collect the evidence you need to answer your question. There are many methods available to researchers, and the key is to find the method that best fits your research question, and that will give you the best evidence (data) to answer your question. It is also important at this stage of the research process to decide “who” you will want to gather evidence from (students, faculty, support staff, texts, etc).
As explained on the University of Wisconsin LEADERSHIP SITE for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning:
If you plan to use human subjects/participants in your research, and you plan at some point to make the results of your research "public," then you will need to obtain permission to investigate these human subjects through your campus Institutional Review Board. This Review Board's mission is to insure that research participants are treated fairly and ethically. Each campus has their own…
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