I need activity report on tutorial workshops 5, 6 and 8. You can read these files and do according to instructions given in these files. I am also uploading the Lecture 5 slides and coding_sample_airbnb.txt file as these files are used in these workshops.
Student Problem Solving and Reserch Skills – week 1 ITECH 5500 Tutorial-Workshop 05 Research Approaches PART A Resources Required:Computer with Internet connection and audio-visual support [Students are recommended to use headphones/earphones] Aim:To further explore and understand the theories and concepts on Research Philosophies and Paradigms. 1. Click on the following link to watch the YouTube video attentively on “Ontology epistemology and methodology - research methodology course (self-study) - session 1” and then respond to the question/s below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xvpxBVCo0c (11:40 minutes) a. List and define, in your own words, all the terms mentioned and discussed in the video. b. Also identify the other terms mentioned in the video that associates with the primary categories of Research Paradigm- Ontology, Epistemology and Methodology and include how these associate. Refer to Lectures and research on the Internet for more information. You may repeat watching the video for further clarifications. 2. Birk and Mills (2011, p. 9) provided the following technique to identify your underlying assumptions about the world. It is worth setting aside a small amount of time to ensure you are very clear how you see yourself philosophically. See the figure below for details of how to identify your ‘underlying philosophical assumptions’. [You need to work on the Tutorial-Workshops during the Tutorial-Workshop class and participate in a controlled discussion as directed. Finally, you will also need to summarise your responses/answers (both parts A and B) and write a reflection of learning from this week’s work. Submission required as per instructions on Moodle] Student Problem Solving and Reserch Skills – week 1 ITECH 5500 Tutorial-Workshop 06 PART A Resources Required:Computer with Internet connection and audio-visual support [Students are recommended to use headphones/earphones] Aim:To exercise and further explore on the quantitative research design processes. 1. Read the following and perform exercises on statistics and variables- It is believed that hunger is partly controlled by external (environmental) cues. To investigate this a random sample of 60 first year students was selected and each student was in turn randomly allocated to one of three groups. Each group of 20 students was put into a room with a large clock prominently displayed on the wall, and asked to complete a questionnaire. In the first room, the clock on the wall showed the correct time. In the other rooms the clock was either one hour fast or one hour slow. The actual time, 5.30pm, was the usual evening meal time for all of the students. While the participants filled out the questionnaire, some dry biscuits and cheese were freely available. The weight of the biscuits and cheese consumed by each student was calculated; the means were: 4.30 group, 200gm; 5.30 group, 300gm; and 6.30 group, 400gm. Identify the following: a. The dependent variable b. The independent variable c. A population of interest d. A sample e. A statistic that was calculated f. A variable measured on a nominal scale g. A variable measured on a ratio scale h. What did this study find? 2. Levels of Measurement of Data Types- For the examples below, identify the data types (nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio) for each of the variables. a) Job approval rating of the president (strongly approve, approve, disapprove, strongly disapprove) b) State of residence of presidential candidates c) The number of political parties participating in national elections in a sample of countries d) Research subjects’ scores on an IQ Test e) Whether a parliamentary candidate is an incumbent or a challenger f) The amount of money raised by the Liberal Party National committee during the 2010 election campaign g) Populations of countries categorized as less than 20 million, 20 million to 50 million, more than 50 million h) The percentage of seats held by the Greens in state legislative assembly from 1980-2010 i) Whether a country has a federal or unitary system of government j) Level of education obtained by survey respondents (less than high school, high school, some college, college, more than college) 3. For the following data sets, perform calculations of the Mean, Median and Mode. a) A football fan records how many goals his team scored in their last 15 football matches. Here are the results: 2, 3, 0, 0, 1, 3, 4, 2, 5, 0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1 b) The weekly salaries of six employees at McDonalds are $140, $220, $90, $180, $140, $200. 4. The following questions are on understanding descriptive statistics- a. In what way does the median represent the middle of the distribution? b. In what way is the mean the balancing point of a distribution? PART B 1. Objectives are the goals you set out to attain in your study. They inform a reader what you want to attain through the study. It is extremely important to word them clearly and specifically. Objectives should be listed under two headings: Main objectives (aims) and Sub-objectives. The main objective is an overall statement of the thrust of your study. It is also a statement of the main associations and relationships that you seek to discover or establish. The sub-objectives are the specific aspects of the topic that you want to investigate within the main framework of your study. The objectives should start with words such as- ‘to determine’, ‘to find out’, ‘to ascertain’, ‘to measure’, ‘to explore’ etc. By now you already have formulated your main objectives of your research topic. You are now required to formulate a number of sub-objectives for the specific aspects of your research topic. 2. The hypothesis is a clear statement of what is intended to be investigated. It should be specified before research is conducted and openly stated in reporting the results. This allows to: · Identify the research objectives · Identify the key abstract concepts involved in the research · Identify its relationship to both the problem statement and the literature review Now that you have already written up a problem statement for your research in week 3 and formulated objectives in Question 1 above, watch the following video on ‘How to Formulate a Hypothesis’ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp2fbzWZDmA Then, formulate hypothesis for your own research problem and identify the independent and dependent variables in your hypothesis. Also state whether there are any other types of variable in your case, discuss why/why not. [You need to work on the Tutorial-Workshops during the Tutorial-Workshop class and participate in a controlled discussion as directed. Finally, you will also need to summarise your responses/answers (both parts A and B) and write a reflection of learning from this week’s work. Submission required as per instructions on Moodle] Student Problem Solving and Reserch Skills – week 1 ITECH 5500 Tutorial-Workshop Week 08 PART A Resources Required:Computer with Internet connection and audio-visual support [Students are recommended to use headphones/earphones] Aim:To further explore and understand the theories and practices on Non-verbal Communication and its effects. PART A NVIVO Visit the QSR web site (QSR is a LaTrobe University spin-out company) and download and install a Trial version of Nvivo. This is fully functional but will expire in 2 weeks. If you want to keep using Nvivo after two weeks, download it again. https://www.qsrinternational.com/nvivo/what-is-nvivo Create a new Nvivo project – provide a short title (maybe your name{Lovepreet}) You should see a screen that looks something like this On the Menu, Select Import and read in the coding_sample_airbnb.txt file on Moodle. {I have already attached coding_sample_airbmb.txt file}This contains some Airbnb reviews. After importing the Airbnb review file you should see the reviews on the right, a pane that displays Nodes in the middle (no nodes defined yet) in the middle and nav bar on the left. Imagine you are doing qualitative research aimed at understanding how Airbnb guests experience the houses they stay in. You will practice making up your own codes that represent how guests experience the houses. For example, you may read the first review “A beautiful, huge house, on three levels” and think the size of the house is important for guests. You will want to create a Node you will call Size that you will use to ‘tag’ all words or phrases that relate to this. Create a Node by dragging the text ‘huge house on three levels’ to the Node pane and naming the node Size Review 3 starts with “Fantastic large house” that you think is raving about the size of the house. Drag that text directly to the Node Size. Node Size now has 2 references. Click on the Node to see them Continue Coding – reading reviews and assigning phrases to new nodes or existing nodes until you have at least 15 Nodes and record them here: __________ ___________ __________ __________ ___________ __________ ___________ __________ __________ ___________ __________ ___________ __________ __________ ___________ __________ ___________ __________ __________ ___________ __________ ___________ __________ __________ ___________ You can define Relationships between Nodes and Add Nodes to sets. For example, I might want to create a Set called Features of the House and assign Size and Attractiveness Nodes to this. You have commenced the Coding process to analyse interview data qualitatively. After coding all your text data, the Nodes, Relationships and Sets provide you with deep insights into your data that you can use to extract Themes following the qualitative methodology called Thematic Analysis. PART B UNDERSTANDING QUALITATIVE METHODS Watch the following youtube video by Dr Leslie Curry from Yale University. It is titles “Fundamentals of Qualitative Research Methods: Data Analysis” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbdN_sLWl88 Answer the following questions after watching this video. 1/ How does Dr Curry define qualitative analysis? 2/ What example does she use of a research question that requires a) A quantitative approach? b) A qualitative approach? 3/ What does she say are the main features of qualitative research that differentiate them from quantitative research? 4/ What does she say are the products of qualitative research? 5/ What does she mean by a “recurrent theme”? The above discussion focused on qualitative research methods in health care scenarios. Can you think of a a) A possible quantitative research question in an organisational scenario? b) A possible qualitative research question in an organisational scenario? 1. Paraphrasing means using your own words to restate the central idea put forth by another author (refer to Lecture 05{These lecture slides are also uploaded}). The following link on ‘Using paraphrasing in writing’ (University of