A collection of brief teaching notes for the research project workshops: on the subject of Research Methods

A collection of brief teaching notes for the research project workshops (conducted by J.K.K. Ho): on the subject of Research Methods

Related to research philosophy

1. A brief note on research philosophy.
2. A brief note on research philosophies for teaching purpose.
3. A brief note on the main ideas of pragmatism.
4. A brief note on realism and anti-realism.
5. A brief note on positivism and post-positivism.
6. A brief note on social constructionism.

Related to research types

1. A note on descriptive research.
2. A note on exploratory research.
3. A note on descriptive, exploratory, evaluation and causal research.

Related to research methodology

1. A brief note on the examples of research methodologies.
2. A brief note on research methodology.
3. A brief teaching note on the case study research
4. A brief teaching note on grounded theory (also a note on the coding approach of grounded theory)
5. A brief teaching note on action research.
6. A brief note on the ethnographic approach./ also study the topic of "rich description".
7. A brief note on realist ethnography/ interpretive ethnography.
8. A brief teaching note on the phenomenological approach.
9. A brief teaching note on the hermeneutic approach.

Related to research approaches

1. A brief note on the examples of research approach types.
2. A brief note on the three research approaches (reasoning)
3. A brief note on research approaches (methods) for teaching purpose.
4. A note on inductive and deductive reasoning from the perspectives of qualitative and quantitative research.

Related to research methods

1. A brief teaching note on research interview./ another one on in-depth interview.
2. A brief teaching note on focus group./ a note of qualitative data analysis on three kinds of focus group session transcripts/ a note on how to moderate a focus group.
3. A brief teaching note on participant observation.
4. A brief teaching note on structured observation.
5. A brief teaching note on semi-structured observation.
6. A brief teaching note on questionnaire survey.
7. A brief teaching note on quasi-experiment.
8. A brief teaching note on qualitative content analysis.
9. A brief teaching note on quantitative content analysis.
10. A brief teaching note on document study.
11. A brief teaching note on secondary research method.
12. A note on research method design quality.
13. A brief note on the comparison of the data gathering strategy of focus group and structured interview.
14. A brief note on the comparison of the data gathering strategy of narrative interview and questionnaire survey.
15. A brief teaching note on the data gathering design considerations of research methods.
16. A brief teaching note on the data analysis design considerations of research methods.

Related to some side topics

1. A brief note on professional identity
2. A brief note on population and sample
3. A brief note on research objectives and research questions
4. A brief note on research ethics issues on doing dissertation project works.
5. A brief note on holistic thinking.
6. A brief note on introspection.
7. A brief note on theoretical and conceptual frameworks
8. A brief note on thematic analysis./ also a note on the concepts in thematic analysis.
9. A note on the three layers of reality in critical realism.
10. A collection of notes on research themes, research project titles, research objectives, research questions and and research issues.
11. A note on how to improve the discussion quality of the literature review chapter.
12. A brief note on evaluation research.

The popular choices of research method practices by MBA students for doing dissertation projects:

References

A conceptual diagram of the ALRA (academic oriented type).

A related collection of notes for housing studies students.