However, often collections of statistics and number crunching are not the answer to understanding meanings, beliefs and experience, which are better understood through qualitative data.
And quantitative data, it must be remembered, are also collected in accordance with certain research vehicles and underlying research questions.
You will have findings, but they will have very little validity.
You go to the doctor because you are feeling weak and without energy (the research problem). Because taking an X-ray of a foot will not tell you the causes and symptoms of a weakness. Oh, just one more thing (I promise): I am not here to try to explain to you what your methodology should be.
Each design will provide you with many possibilities of methods to use. Read about it, reflect and discuss with your supervisor, ok? 3, 5, 7 point-Likert scales, previously validated scales, references of authors from the scales you used, if you developed scale items).
In case you are developing interviews or open questions for focus groups, for example, I have written a series of suggestions here that can help you.Here you should detail exactly how the data collection process happened. (that the measurements used, such as your scales, are consistent and replicable) are two concepts that simply have to be addressed and have to do with your measurements.You should detail, for example, when it took place (e.g. Once again, describing what each concept is and how you should address them is beyond the scope of this article.You will be familiar with many of these methods from your work and from MA, MSc or BA study already.Interviews enable face to face discussion with human subjects.Your research will dictate the kinds of research methodologies you use to underpin your work and methods you use in order to collect data.If you wish to collect quantitative data you are probably measuring variables and verifying existing theories or hypotheses or questioning them.Also discuss the manipulation of the independent variable (how were the experimental conditions different from one another), if it was a between-group design or a within group design. Of course different supervisors will have other ways of defining what is relevant for you in this chapter.Nonetheless, the content I have described above is the most general that almost every management-related thesis should include in their methodology chapter. Oh, and I do not like wheat beer (“Weizenbier”, in German). In which year and month, for how many days), in which places (e.g. If offline, where exactly and under which circumstances), what exactly was YOUR role (e.g. So PLEASE go through them in research methods books, discuss it with your supervisor and write in this section WHAT the concepts are and HOW you address them in your thesis, ok? I have seen so many students in colloquiums that had absolutely no clue about this. For example, here at Music we have done a series of studies on Virtual Reality (VR).They knew they had to write about it, but had no clue. During these studies, we used a particular type of VR glasses and specific VR apps. If I used a super high-tech-mega-awesome VR glasses, would it influence the results? So it is also important for the reader to take it into consideration when reading your results. ONLY if your study involved a particular equipment that was relevant to it.