Results 

Please see guidelines on what should go in your results section.

For quantitative data, you need to include:

·       description of your sample 

·       your descriptive statistics,

·       inferential statistics, 

·       tables/graphs

·       verbal descriptions of your data

·       explanations of how these statistics were calculated

For qualitative data, you need to include:

·       descriptions of your sample characteristics (e.g. how many participants, questions, tweets)

·       verbal descriptions of your data

·       results of your qualitative analysis - this could mean the results of your coding, your thematic analysis, your phenomenological analysis, etc.

·       visual data displays

For the subjects section, please read through 170 - 182 in your practical research handbook and include the following terminology in your justification: 

• Your sampling method (will be different for everyone) 

• Sampling bias and how it will be minimized 

• Target population 

• Population validity
  
  For the instruments section (if you are using a questionnaire - ignore if you are using another data collection method), please read through 103 - 110 in your practical research handbook and include the following terminology in your justification: 

• Content validity, criterion validity, construct validity, and how you will be increasing these types of validity 

• Internal consistency reliability, and how you will be maximizing it 

• Explain how you developed your questions (see pages 160 - 169 if you need more guidance)
  
  For the instruments section (if you are conducting an interview - ignore if you are using another data collection method), please read through 244 - 249 in you practical research handbook and discuss: 

• How you constructed interview questions
  
  For the procedure section, read through pages 181 - 187 and discuss how you will be minimizing bias in your study, : 

• Researcher bias, response bias, instrumentation bias.