Quantitative Research Studies
Continue to gather information about the topic of interest and the
research focus you identified in Week One. Identify two journal articles
that report on quantitative research studies that address the research
topic or research focus of interest to you.
- Discuss how these two studies are useful in helping you develop a
better understanding of your topic of interest or research focus,
evaluating the strength and potential weaknesses of the two studies as
reliable sources to support a research study on your topic or question
of interest. - Validity is a characteristic used to evaluate the quality and
applicability of quantitative research, much like trustworthiness is
used to evaluate qualitative research. After reading about external
validity in this week’s readings, identify the potential threats, if
any, to external validity in the two studies you identified.
should be at least 300 words in length, and should reference at least two different academic sources.