I’m working on a social work multi-part question and need a sample draft to help me learn.

Assignment:

Over the last few weeks, you have conducted research in your field of study to identify a research problem you will turn into a research question. In your initial post, consider patterns you found as you were looking at this information. What did you notice? What is the relationship between your field of study in social science and the methodologies and data types you found? If a particular methodology was selected over others, what might the impact on your field of study be? (Hint: Refer back to your answers in your Module Six journal entry.)

Then, choose two peers who are studying a social science field different from yours. As you review your peers’ initial posts, answer at least two of the following questions as you compare patterns of methodology choices in their social science and yours:

• Do you see other limits in their social science that they did not identify?
• What might the impact of those limits be?
• How do the methodology and data types preferred by their social science compare to those preferred by yours? Are there overlaps? Major differences?
• What do you see as the impact of these preferences, and is there something that could be gained in their social science if they were to embrace some of the methodologies and data types used by your social science?

Peer1:

I found that there are many things to study in my field of work. I found that using a mixed methodology was seemed like a good way to research the topic at hand. Although people may want to know the numbers behind a research topic but knowing the why is important too. For example my research focused on juveniles re-offending. I didn’t want to know what the chances were of them re-offending but do other factors influence them to re-offend again. I found that usually surveys and interviews were most common to use. Also found looking at document review was also most common in data collection. I feel like if I used mix methodology it would make the the answer to my research question more detailed and it could possibly give more details on why its happening and how to lower the numbers.

Peer2:

When looking for a research question I found that my professional field of human services tend to use more mixed-method data-collection for research. This is due to analyzing human experiences and correlating factors of behaviors with specific areas. I have found that using a mixed method approach allows the qualitative research to be supported and consolidated into common themes that could help narrow the research question. The qualitative research methods such an interviews allow open-ended questions to be asked and and quantitative methods such as questionnaires help show pre and post numerical data that can support the qualitative data. Quantitative data alone would not be beneficial to a study in the human services field because human behaviors can not be measured accurately in with numerical data.