Research designs

Which should come first?

• Deciding on a research design

• Formulating a research question

“Collection of data on social events as they unfold in the natural habitat with minimum intrusion” is the definition of an:

• Observational study

• Observational design

Suppose you want to study the social integration of Filipino nurses that immigrated to work in Ireland over the past 5 years.

What method would be best suited?

• Primary research

• Secondary research

Which type of study is best suited to find a causal effect?

• Experimental

• Observational

Observational studies maximise internal validity.

• True

• False

The dependent variable represents the...

• Treatment

• Outcome

[Part 1] Experiments are defined by (a)   comparisons...

[Part 2] Experiments are defined by outcome comparisons in a (a)   setting.

In France, the legal working hours were reduced from 40 hours to 35 hours a week in the late 1990s in some companies.

Researchers are interested in the effect of fewer working hours on individual well-being by exploiting the change in the French context. By doing so, they are doing a:

• Field experiment

• Natural expriment

Between variation can be observed with:

• Longitudinal data

• Cross-sectional data