2020 Assignment 1 Research Design

1. Methods encompass more than just types of data and how they were gathered. For example, it can also include the setting, if the setting is particularly helpful to understand a problem. In what way is the setting in this article important to the research design? Draw on evidence from the article to support your answer.                                                               

2.  The authors state that they make three theoretical contributions in this paper. First, identify the three different contributions in the paper and then critically assess the authors’ claims that they are novel contributions (based on the evidence available in the article).                                               

3.  In addition to the theoretical contributions, discuss how else this article contributes to knowledge.                                                                       

4.  Comment on the authors’ data collection and analysis techniques. Discuss how these techniques led to the analysis and findings presented in the paper