EXAMPLE : USING MIXED METHOD: BOTH QUALITATIVE & QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH QuickStop Convenience Stores Background Once upon a time there was a successful line of convenience stores. We’ll call this group of stores "QuickStop". At some point a staff-member realised that QuickStop seemed to be patronised by many more men than women. This was passed along to the management team and they asked the store tellers to informally keep track of the proportions of men to women who came into their stores.
Premium Quantitative research Qualitative research Scientific method
experiments via Taguchi methods: orthogonal arrays Introduction The Taguchi method involves reducing the variation in a process through robust design of experiments. The overall objective of the method is to produce high quality product at low cost to the manufacturer. The Taguchi method was developed by Dr. Genichi Taguchi of Japan who maintained that variation. Therefore‚ poor quality in a process affects not only the manufacturer but also society. He developed a method for designing experiments
Premium Taguchi methods Design of experiments
SCIENTIFIC METHOD CASE STUDY Scientific Method Case Study: Resolving a Lawn Problem Sharon Webster University of Phoenix September 11‚ 2006 SCI/256 Instructor: Harish Rekapally‚ MS Scientific Method Case Study: Resolving a Lawn Problem Introduction The scenario for this case study is that you notice that the grass around my house is brown‚ short‚ and dead. The grass around my neighbor’s house is green‚ tall‚ and alive. Utilizing my understanding of the Scientific Method‚ my intent
Premium Scientific method Grass
RESEARCH METHODS PART III Business Research Methods Part III University of Phoenix Applied Business Research and Statistics 561 March 29‚ 2010 Business Research Methods Part III Team C’s Business Research Methods Part I analysis determined a problem within Toyota Motor Corporation’s recent recalls that posed a potential for decreased customer satisfaction‚ which has the additional potential for impacting sales. Part II proposed a sample design and appropriate collection methods‚ a sample
Premium Research Toyota Sampling
Method Acting and 1950’s American Politics and Culture Throughout the twentieth century‚ method acting had been experimented with and practiced in the United States. The method had derived from Stanislavski’s "system" at the Moscow Art Theatre and was then given its own identity by method pioneers in the Group Theatre‚ Lee Strasberg‚ Stella Adler and Elia Kazan. Through the early 1900’s‚ the method had begun to gain recognition in American theatre‚ but swiftly attained considerable prominence on
Premium Actor Method acting
Outline the Assumptions and Methods of Interpretivist and Positivist Approaches to Research. Most philosophical studies are concerned with problems such as reality‚ knowledge‚ human behaviour and existence. Positivism and Interpretativism originated from philosophical disciplines in order to explain phenomena and clarify ideas on reality‚ knowledge‚ human behaviour and existence. This essay will outline in parallel the Positivists’ and the Interpretivists’ assumptions on ontology‚ epistemology
Free Psychology Scientific method Social sciences
Qualitative Article:A Women ’s Place is in the Home: Females and Residential BurglaryThis article uses a qualitative research method. Qualitative research involves analyzing and interpreting texts and interviews in order to discover meaningful patterns descriptive of a particular phenomenon (Adler & Clarke‚ 2008‚ p.13.). The method has been adopted to investigate the research question. The research question is; what involvement do women have in residential burglaries. This research question is analysed
Premium Scientific method Research Quantitative research
Which selection method would you recommend using? Provide an example and explain both the benefits and negatives attributed with this method. It is very important to choose a right candidate when hiring. Human capital is number one priority in organization. Either a small company with 5 employees or big company with thousands of employee‚ selecting right candidate is crucial and necessary. Workers are the fundament of the organization. Many different selection methods are studied and tested. Today
Premium Employment
DESIGN-BUILD PROJECT DELIVERY METHOD Civil Engineering: Design-Build Project Delivery Method Design-Build Project Delivery Method Due to the economic specialization‚ a new method named The Design Build Project Delivery Method has been developed. This method is found as the best alternative for delivering the public projects (Design-Build E ffectiveness Study‚ 2006). As per the position of the design professional‚ the design build project delivery methods are suitable for the delivery
Premium Construction Architect Project management
Unit 1 Identify different observation methods & know why they are used 1.2 Brief notes – a brief notation of an observation Writing brief notes is the best way to get your feet wet observing. Teachers who are involved and busy find this a good starting point. Some educators develop a code or a shorthand way of writing brief notes about what they are observing. They do this on sticky note pads or on mailing labels that can be placed later in the child’s folder along with samples of work‚ drawings
Free Observation Scientific method Hypothesis