The validity of a study explains the extent to which the questions asked measure what they are supposed to measure. […]
The validity of a study explains the extent to which the questions asked measure what they are supposed to measure. […]
When you conduct interviews, you can find out a lot. You collect primarily qualitative data. (There are some tricks to collect quantitative data as well.)
When conducting a research, it is important to formulate the right research question. In this blog I explain how to do this.
Sending out a questionnaire is an excellent method to question many people in the same way. If you can obtain a good response rate
Many people think of interviewing as the widely used method in which the interviewer asks questions to the interviewee. But there are other ways to interview. In this blog, I'll give you some examples.
The reliability of a study points to the extent to which the findings are interpretable to a larger whole. In […]
Suppose you want to research a target group of as many as 10,000 people. Do you have to interview all 10,000 people to get the right results?
In a previous blog, I wrote about how best to draw a sample. In the blog, I briefly described the […]
From the conversations I have with various people who do research stems some confusion about the term research methods.
It is not always necessary to collect all the data yourself. You may also use existing sources. Think of databases like SCP or CBS, from which you can buy data