- What was the purpose of this study? (5 points)
- What are the research questions and/or research hypotheses? (5 points)
- Would you classify this research as exploratory, descriptive, explanatory, and/or applied? Justify your response (5 points)
- What type of research design (quantitative or qualitative) was utilized? Was this design appropriate, given the purpose of the research? Justify your response. (5 points)
- What type of sampling technique was utilized? Can the researchers generalize from the sample to the population? Justify your response. (10 points)
- Describe how the data were obtained. (5 points)
- What does it mean to gain entrée? How did the author gain entrée in this study? (5 points)
- What are field notes and why are they important? How did the author take field notes in this study? (5 points)
- Would you classify the author’s role in the study as complete observer, participant and observer, or covert participant? Justify your response. (10 points)
- Describe how internal validity is the same/different in quantitative research versus qualitative research. What can be done to improve validity of a qualitative study? Was this done in the “New Biker” study? Justify your response. (15 points)
- Identify (at least 3) methodological weaknesses of this study. Justify your answer. (15 points)
- If you were the researcher, what would you do to improve the methodology of this study (in at least 3 ways)? Justify your answer. (15 points)
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