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Effective Research Strategies for AICE Learners

This guide provides tips and techniques for selecting a topic, developing research questions, evaluating resources, choosing research methods, analyzing data, and writing the report. Includes helpful suggestions and reminders throughout the research process.

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Effective Research Strategies for AICE Learners

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  1. Paper 4: The Big Picture Christina Bretoi

  2. Selecting Your Topic Find something that interests YOU Questions you should ask yourself when coming up with a topic. • Does it effect a lot of people? • Can a discussion be created from your topic? • Does it have contrasting perspectives? Ex: Taken from AICE learners guide

  3. Developing Your Research Question Questions to ask yourself while coming up with questions: • Is the questions exploratory of different aspects of your topic? • Are there different opinions and arguments that can be discussed from your question? • Does the question pose an obvious problem? Avoid these phrases: • ‘what’ ‘why’ or ‘explain’ Use these phrases: ‘To what extent’ ‘How far’ or ‘should’ 252624-stage2_critique-sheet.docx

  4. The Considerations Of The Research Design ‘If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldnot be called research, would it?’ – Albert Einstein • Make sure you evaluate your available resources • Books • Library • Websites • Computer with internet • Magazines • Magazines from home, bookstore • News articles • Newspaper, book store, online. • Managing your time correctly • Do you need a budget? Books cost money! • Be organized

  5. Reviewing The Literature • You DO NOT have to do a literature review. • Only do one if it will help your paper and help the readers and yourself be more organized • Find the books you want before hand and keep a list. • It will be hard to find and get a copy of every single book on your list. Do NOT get discouraged. Say good bye to that book and find another one. • USE GOOGLE SCHOLARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! • https://scholar.google.com/ • USE WORLDCAT • http://www.worldcat.org/ • If you are using primary data you might want a literature review. However if you are using primarily desk research, then you are already writing a literature review • When writing a literature review refer to AICE’s learners guide. PLEASE

  6. Selecting Your Methods Is it valid and reliable? • You have the power to choose a method that works best for you while doing your research. • Quantitative Questions • ’How much?’ or ‘How often?’ • Your research needs to be based more on something that gives you these numbers so you would need quantitative data • You can find most of your numbers doing desk research • Qualitative Questions • Understanding someone's motivations or interpretations of issues and events • You would need secondary sources and maybe create research of your own i.e. interviews. • ../../../Volumes/NO NAME/252635-stage5_primary_research.docx

  7. The Fieldwork (Primary Data) • Uses surveys, Questionnaires, Interviews and Focus Groups. • Using Surveys/Questionnaires: • Make sure to identify sample. Who are you targeting? • Closed questions • Open-ended Questions • Interviews: • Structured interview • Semi structured • Unstructured • Focus Groups: • Same as interviews just more people (Sounds a lot like AICE-psychology, doesn’t it?)

  8. Analyzing Your Data • Building theory through interpretation: • AICE wants your theory to be a set of interrelated concepts and ideas that have a strong claim to being relevant as an explanation of what may be happening in terms of your research topic. • Bringing it all together: Infer Identify Conclude Explain Hypothesis/Theory Evaluate Build

  9. Writing The Actual Report Make sure to plan out your essay. SCAFFOLD! Give yourself enough time to write your essay Write as many drafts as you can… there is always something in your writing you can improve. Do NOT procrastinate Good Luck!

  10. Logs overview • Please keep up with your logs • You will regret it • Talk about anything and everything that has to do with your paper • When writing your logs, ask some of these questions: • How does the research make you feel? • What quote helps you further your research? • How does this quote make you feel?

  11. Tips and tricks • Keep up with logs • DON’T PROCRASTINATE • Actually plan out your essay • Find an essay buddy (someone that you trust to be honest with you) to throw ideas back and forth for each others essay • LOOK AT THE LEARNERS GUIDE • Use the instructor for help when you can!!!!!!!! • Don’t be afraid to write more than one draft. There is always something to fix.

  12. All information came from the AICE Learners Guide which can be found on the AICE website or Dr. Crihfield’s website http://www.shshistory.com/extra%20pages/A_Learners_Guide_to_the_Cambridge_Research_Report.pdf

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