Discussion:
The Procedures of Data Analysis
When data is collected, its raw form can look varied and confusing-completed surveys, scored assessments, pages of transcribed conversations, observational notes, words, numbers, or a collection of these.
At the beginning, provide the following information:
Population. Adolescents
- Clinical area of concern-substance abuse.
- Clinical intervention-CBT intervention.
- Quantitative research question OR qualitative research question.
Quantitative: Is there a relationship between health risk sexual behavior and substance abuse among adolescents?
Qualitative: Does health-risk sexual behaviors influence substance abuse among adolescents?
Now describe the step-by-step data analysis procedure you are using for your proposed program evaluation project. Use the peer-reviewed journal articles you located in the Library Search to support your decisions as you answer the following:
What are the data analysis procedures (using both descriptive and inferential statistics) for the quantitative component of the program evaluation project?
What are the data analysis procedures for the qualitative component of the program evaluation project?
Please consider when identifying the support for the use of the data analysis procedure within the literature that support can be either:
Demonstrating how these studies used similar data analysis procedures.
How that article explains that other procedures would not be appropriate.