Discussion Assignment Week 6 Angie Woods: Making Research Valid and Why It Matters

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Discussion Assignment Week 6: Making Research Valid and Why It Matters

Student Name: Angie Woods

Instructor: Jan Ferrari

EDUC-6163-3 Building Research Competency

Walden University

Discussion Assignment Week 6: Making Research Valid and Why It Matters

                                                      Student Name: Angie Woods      

                                                                                                  

If I were the researcher, which version (or combination of versions) of triangulation would I use to ensure the validity of this study? If I was the researcher the vision of triangulation I would use to ensure a validity of the study. The study has a mixture of data collection of investigator and methodological. The main thing to me is the data collection when the children are being creating with the stories by using pictures, stuffed toy animals, puppets which younger children love to see and storyboards in other tools.  These tools help the product in a degree in analyzing the meaning to children with a version of demonstrations of the care of others. As the author says, methodological triangulation is a multiple methods to study a single problem. In this method of researcher to me can provide a reliable study because it’s multiple methods with the study of a single problem.  Even though it was many method used like in documentations, observations and interviews. Because the methodological triangulation  has meaning that modify  good research questions in the variety of different methods from evaluating data collections   used  in result  documentation in the studies. Plus another method I would try with my study would be investigator triangulation that has several researchers. I believe this is a more direct to the student or children creation in gathering information by evaluating the data collections from the study may be. In this approach it can ensure the result and data collection with the facts from other researchers. By doing any research it is very important in the studies that other researchers have at least the same or similar studies of up to date studies with investigator triangulation being used.

How would my choice(s) contribute to the validity of the study? My choices contribute to investigator triangulation, data triangulation and methodological triangulation.  With the investigator it’s more of utilizing information from other researchers by analyzing the data collection from the sources of the study.  In the methodological triangulation provides me with the understanding of I can use many different of methods like a guide in using the right method in the study.

References List

                                                                        

1.      Doing Early Childhood Research International Perspectives on Theory & Practice author Glenda Mac Naughton Sharne A. Rolfe Iram Siraj-Blatchford 2^nd edition (Chapter 9 Qualitative designs and analysis) pages 163-164.