Homework: Conducting Quantitative & Qualitative Research
Program evaluation procedures can help you identify the needs of a population as you develop programs. They can also help you identify portions of the population who are not accessing services once a program is implemented. In this homework, you examine issues related to access to services and how program evaluation procedures can be used to address those issues.
To Prepare
Review the Interactive Learning Community's Community Center and High School in this week's Learning Resources. Consider the demographics present in the New Harbor High School. Then consider how you could apply research methods to increasing participation in marriage and relationship education programs to one of the largest disadvantaged and/or ethnically diverse families in the community. Use the data from the High School, to choose a population. Finally, consider the measurement and data collection methods presented in the course text and how they could be applied to this issue.
Task (2 to 3 pages)
a. Identify the disadvantaged and/or ethnically diverse population you have chosen in this Interactive Learning Community and why you choose that population to focus on.
b. Explain how, as a researcher, you would increase participation of your chosen disadvantaged and/or ethnically diverse populations in marriage and relationship education programs based on their needs.
c. The combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to provide more valid, reliable, and generalizable results in research is known as "Mixed Methods" Research. Explain the types of quantitative measures and qualitative data collection methods you would employ to obtain more valid, reliable and generalizable results for a program evaluation of the marriage and relationship education programs.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
a. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
b. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
c. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.