Effective Research Methods for Any Project

Learn practical and proven research techniques you can use in both your professional and personal life.

• By This Professor
• 01: Why Research Methods Matter
• 02: Characteristics of Good Research
• 03: Doing Research Ethically
• 04: From Topic of Interest to Research Question
• 05: What’s Already Known? The Literature Review
• 06: Generating Hypotheses and Theories
• 07: Selecting a Research Design
• 08: Measuring Concepts and Phenomena
• 09: Choosing Populations, Samples, and Cases
• 10: The Classic Experiment
• 11: The Value of Quasi Experiments
• 12: Designing and Conducting a Survey
• 13: Understanding Election Polls
• 14: Research by Case Study
• 15: Interpretivism and Field Research
• 16: Applied, Evaluative, and Action Research
• 17: Gathering and Preparing Data
• 18: Using Statistics to Interpret Data
• 19: Statistical Inferences from Data
• 20: Assessing Correlation and Causation
• 21: From Bivariate to Multivariate Analysis
• 22: Foundations of Qualitative Analysis
• 23: Qualitative Analysis Variations
• 24: The Art of Presenting Your Findings