This week’s topics
Validity Evaluation and Strategic Recommendations
- Assessing measurement reliability and validity
- Identifying methodological limitations and bias
- Constructing evidence-based recommendations
- Justifying directions for future research
- Business Research: Reliability and Validity
- Research Report: Recommendations, Appendices and Bibliography
- Reliability, validity, generalizability and credibility. Pt .1 of 3: Research Quality
What you will be able to do
- 4.1 Use appropriate research evaluation techniques to justify the validity of the research.
- 4.2 Make recommendations, justifying areas for further consideration.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: use appropriate research evaluation techniques to justify the validity of the research.
Study materials
Videos
- Business Research: Reliability and Validity · YouTube · Galton College · 21 min · for registered students
- Research Report: Recommendations, Appendices and Bibliography · YouTube · Galton College · 10 min · for registered students
- Reliability, validity, generalizability and credibility. Pt .1 of 3: Research Quality · YouTube · Graham R Gibbs · 39 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Learning Statistics with R (Navarro, v0.7.1), ch. 2: A brief introduction to research design · PDF · Other, textbook chapter; pp. 35–66 · for registered students
- Writing Guide with Handbook, ch. 8.5: Writing an analytical report · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 254–267 · for registered students
- Research Methods in Psychology, ch. 5: Psychological Measurement · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 104–129 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
