Required Readings
Babbie, E. (2017) Basics of social research (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
- Chapter 3, “The Ethics and Politics of Social Research”
Burkholder, G. J., Cox, K. A., & Crawford, L. M. (2016). The scholar-practitioner’s guide to research design. Baltimore, MD: Laureate Publishing.
- Chapter 7, “Quality Considerations”
Answer previewIn a quantitative research that has been conducted, the researcher is able to draw legitimate conclusions from the findings since the research was valid (Burkholder, et al., 2016). However, there are major threats which affect the validity of the research conducted which are the threat to internal validity and the threat to external validity. The threat to internal validity means the extent to which the findings that are generated are part of the functions of the variables which were methodically manipulated, measured, and examined in the research study. Some of the possible threats to internal validity are history effects and maturation like in the case of growth processes. In the case of history effects, the occurrences of events are likely to alter the outcomes of the study…(650 words)