Question

1. "Provide an example of when descriptive research might be the appropriate method to use to answer your research question. And while you are at it, what is your question?"

2. Examine the relationship between consumption of milk during dinner and nighttime bedwetting and find a significant correlation of .25. How would you interpret the meaningfulness of this finding?

3. "In conducting focus groups on women¡¯s roles within marriage, would you be better off having women and their husbands in the same group or in separate groups? Why?"

Answer 1

Ans. 1

Descriptive research is defined as a research method that describes the characteristics of the population or phenomenon that is being studied. This methodology focuses more on the “what” of the research subject rather than the “why” of the research subject.

Example of where descriptive research can be used is if a school district that wishes to evaluate teachers attitudes about using technology in the classroom. By conducting surveys and observing their comfortableness using technology through observational methods, the researcher can gauge what the can help understand if a full-fledged implementation can face an issue. This also helps in understanding if the students are impacted in any way with this change.