Assignment:
Note: please modify the information and follow the instruction using my research topic, problem, and purpose and research question to write a 3 to 4 page paper on Quantitative Design and Data collection. Please Use your best discretion.
Quantitative Design and Data collection.
• For the assignment this week, please consider the topic, problem, and purpose you might choose for your Signature Assignment. You can use and revise problems, purposes, and questions from past assignments in this course with the goal of continuing to improve and refine them. Please addresses the following:
• Restatement of your problem, purpose, and research question(s).
• Last week you examined multiple ways to collect data to answer your research questions. Based on your analysis and feedback, choose one quantitative data collection method, describe how it would be used in your hypothetical study, and justify why this method of data collection is the best choice.
• Discussion and justification of your sample and population.
• Potential limitations with the chosen data collection and/or sample to consider and steps that can be taken ahead of time to help avoid these limitations.
• Analysis of any strengths and weaknesses you see with your design, data collection, and/or sample.
• Discuss ethical issues to consider with quantitative data collection methods
• For the assignment this week, please consider the topic, problem, and purpose you might choose for your Signature Assignment. You can use and revise problems, purposes, and questions from past assignments in this course with the goal of continuing to improve and refine them. Please addresses the following:
• Be sure to use scholarly sources to support all assertions and research decisions.
• Length: 3-5 pages, not including title and reference pages
My Short Introduction
This assignment is an enhancement of the topic, problem and purpose of my research study from my previous papers with the goal of improving and refining my research study in other to prepare for my signature assignment.
• Restatement of your problem, purpose, and research question(s).
As stated in my previous papers I stated that the problem to be addressed through this study is the threat of privacy as a result of monitoring or data collection by the government, private corporation or third party agencies and the threat of hackers should not affect how users communicate or share information via technology devices.
The potential topic that I want to conduct my study on using a descriptive research is the concern of the threat to privacy and how it affects the behavior of active technology users. Another way of describing my topic of research, is the relationship between the concern of the threat to privacy and how it affects the behavior of active technology users, who use their devices to communicate or share information. Using a quantitative methodology for this study, we would need to collect a numerical data from data analyzed and collected from questionnaires and surveys. The data here would be collected systematically using interviews.
The purpose of my research is to come up with a conclusion or finding on the topic of my research study. This study investiges how users are affected by the threat to privacy when communicating or sharing information via technology or mobile device. The research study wants to know if there is any change in the behavior of individuals as a result of the threat to privacy that comes data tracking and monitoring or activates by hackers.
As stated in my previous paper the research question would be using a quantitative descriptive research question. Using a descriptive research question would be effective when asking questions that would help provide descriptive information on participants behavior when using technology devices and if there is a relationship with the characteristics or attribute of how an individual use their technology device and how it affects how they react to the threat to privacy. An example of such descriptive quantitative research question is What are the reason that encourage users to communicate via technology or mobile device without fear or threat of privacy?. Also the use of relational quantitative research question could be adopted in the research question for this study to determine if there is a relationship between the variables involved such as age, education etc and the threat to privacy.
• Last week you examined multiple ways to collect data to answer your research questions. Based on your analysis and feedback, choose one quantitative data collection method, describe how it would be used in your hypothetical study, and justify why this method of data collection is the best choice.
Conducting an interview is one of the quantitative data collection method I will be using for this study, this will be done using survey questionnaires "administered through face to face interview or in some instances over the phone" (Polit& Beck, 2006). This data collection process using interview enables information to be gathered that will allow me to answer queries, research questions and hypotheses and determine the outcome, using this method of data collection is reliable and accurate.