AI in Research & Learning
Having AI label 20,000 student comments in an afternoon is entirely feasible. But once those labels become variables, the model is a measurement instrument and
Research Methods
Post a survey link with a reward in a big social media group and you may wake to 1,200 responses. A good share could be bots, speeders or one person submitting
Research Methods
Counting how often newspapers mention vocational education sounds easy until two coders read the same article and disagree. Here is how to design a content anal
Research Methods
“Control for as many variables as possible” is bad advice. Some variables must be controlled, others must never be. This guide uses causal diagrams to separate
Research Methods
Projects often fail at the step where an abstract concept becomes a number. This guide walks through four layers, definition, dimensions, indicators and recordi
Research Methods
Longitudinal studies lose people faster than planned: 70 per cent at wave two, half by wave three. Here is how to space waves, keep contact, link identifiers an
Research Methods
National survey datasets offer tens of thousands of households, free and already cleaned. Ignore the sampling weights, misread a missing-value code or merge wav
Research Methods
A focus group is not eight interviews run at once to save time. This guide covers when to use one, how to compose groups, how to moderate so everyone speaks, an
Research Methods
Three weeks watching a classroom or a market can leave you with a few pages saying “lively atmosphere”. Here is how to observe with purpose and write field note
Research Methods
Systematic reviews rarely fail in the writing. They fail in searching and screening: a narrow search string, a lone screener, no record of exclusion reasons. He
Research Methods
Many theses call a single-company survey a “case study”. Here is how to define the case, set its boundaries, triangulate evidence and generalise to theory rathe
Graduate School
The first year of a PhD is the freest and the easiest to lose. No weekly assignments, no exams, just a fuzzy topic and a mountain of reading. What to do in year
