Gerontology Research FA20
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
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- SYLLABUS ON D2L
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
- Packback
- Research proposal
- Three exams
Part I: Getting Started: An Overview of the Aging Research Process
Overview of the Research Process:
PHILOSOPHY, OR MORE SPECIFICALLY, EPISTEMOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
SO, YOU HAVE YOURSELF A RESEARCH QUESTION...
freewriting/map project ideas
2. Designing Research about Older People & Aging
AGE-PERIOD-COHORT EFFECTS
Normative Age-Related Changes
VOLUNTARY CONSENT ON THE CONTINUUM OF CARE
THINKING ABOUT YOUR ROLE AS RESEARCHER
memo for those not in your field
3. Gerontological Theoretical Approaches
GERONTOLOGICAL THEORY FAMILIES
- Early and/or general theories
- Early biomedical theories
- Psychological/cognitive theories
- Theories of social gerontology
- Critical gerontology
- Ecological theories
- Phenomenological theories
- Identity-based theories
10. Ethical Issues and Concerns in Aging Research
INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARDS
COMMON RULE, INFORMED CONSENT
2015 changes to the Common Rule
WHAT ABOUT DEMENTIA? INSTITUTIONALIZED?
ROAR & MARGINALIZED ADULTS
hint: take what is useful from other disciplines
Part II: Choosing a Research Method and Selecting a Design
a little history - it's complicated
"rich, thick description"
Phenomenological Accounts
THE PROCESS (IN GENERAL)
- Choose method
- Strategize sampling
- Collect data
- Analyze data
- Repeat #3 and #4 until done
A FEW NOTES ON ASSURING QUALITY
WRITING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
10 Essential Interviewing Skills
A BRIEF REMINDER ON QUANT VS. QUAL
description, explanation, exploration, and/or prediction
Single-Case Research Design
Pre-testing/Post-testing & Experimental Design
WORKING WITH SECONDARY DATA
6. Quantitative Data Analysis and Evaluation
level of measurement
- nominal or categorical
- ordinal
- interval-ratio
- WHO CARES???
A NOTE ON TYPE I AND TYPE II ERRORS
Ethical issues & other challenges
“Mixed methods have design complexity.”
MIXED METHODS DESIGNS
- sequential explanatory
- sequential exploratory
- convergent parallel
- embedded
- transformative
- multi-level
NOMENCLATURE & DATA CONCERNS
8. Emerging & Future Methods
TREND #1: REDEFINE “AGE” AND “OLD”
TREND #2: SHOW HETEROGENEITY
TREND #3: MACRO-LEVEL FORCES
TREND #4: ETHNOGERONTOLOGY & CULTURAL GERO
CHOOSING AN EMERGING METHOD
TECHNOLOGY & VIRTUAL OPTIONS
A BRIEF NOTE ON INCLUSIVITY
Part III: Analyzing Results and Reporting Findings
9. Quantitative, Qualitative Software and
sampling weights & case selection
Qualitative Software Basics
11. Reporting Aging Research
best practices for writing
publication types
- manuscripts for journals
- research proposals
- theses & dissertations
- books, chapters, etc
- program evaluation - see AEA
- presentations
research proposal
- title
- abstract
- intro & background
- literature review
- purpose statement/research question
- proposed methods
- references
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