As I was unable to make the campus session today as I have recently started a new job making a grand total of four jobs and a university degree to juggle! After reading other peoples blogs and the module diary I have understood that the session was to discuss Primary and Secondary research as well as qualitative and quantitative research.
Firstly the people who attended the session spent the first half of their day reading and understanding Peter Bryant’s slide show which is all available on his blog which included the following:
Developing your research design topic
* A problem you want to resolve
* A question you want answered
* An idea you would like tested
* Determine if it is ‘worthwhile’
* People’s opinions of your findings…the ‘so what’ factor
* Has it been researched copious amounts?
* Be original with your choice
After reading Sophie’s diary post from the session she has written “Peter explained that there are many ways to improve ‘your’ research problem and suggested to construct a research design/plan before you collect data as to not waste time collecting irrelevant information.
With regards to approaching research, we “need to develop a way to collect, analyse and interpret information that can be used to solve, answer, prove, inform, explore and describe (our) topic.” (BRYANT, P., 2010: Cat Hill Campus session) http://sophiejgilbert.blogspot.com/2010/03/learning-diary-entry-2_05.html which I have found incredibly useful as it makes perfect sense to perform a design plan so that the most relevant research methods are used.
It is apparent that the campus session was again very important, and after further reading of other peoples blogs and understanding the focus was Primary and Secondary research also Quantitative and Qualitative research. I shall now spend the time to research these areas and deliver them as a post.
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