Welcome! This website is for people involved in applied social research and evaluation. You'll find lots of resources and links to other locations on the Web that deal in applied social research methods.
Research design provides the glue that holds the research project together. A design is used to structure the research, to show how all of the major parts of the research project -- the samples or groups, measures, treatments or programs, and methods of assignment -- work together to try to address the central research questions.
The Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix (hereafter labeled MTMM) is an approach to assessing the construct validity of a set of measures in a study. It was developed in 1959 by Campbell and Fiske (Campbell, D. and Fiske, D. (1959).
Our on-line multilevel modelling course is now available: 'LEMMA' (The Learning Environment for Multilevel Methodology and Applications) contains a set of graduated modules starting from an introduction to quantitative research progressing to multilevel modelling of continuous data.
To determine whether a multisource feedback questionnaire, SPRAT (Sheffield peer review assessment tool), is a feasible and reliable assessment method to inform the record of in-training assessment for paediatric senior house officers and specialist registrars.
Based on these findings, streaming video technology
seems to be a viable tool to complement in-class delivery methods, to accommodate the needs of
medical students, and to provide options for meeting the challenges of delivering the undergraduate
medical curriculum.
In most social research the data analysis involves three major steps, done in roughly this order:
Cleaning and organizing the data for analysis (Data Preparation)
Describing the data (Descriptive Statistics)
Testing Hypotheses and Models (Inferential Statistics)