RESEARCH PROPOSAL

Research Proposal: In Canada, public school winter holidays are still generally organized around Christian holidays rather than those of any other religions.

Contents

Research Question3

Sample3

Sampling Method3

Sampling Procedures3

Methods of collecting Data5

Qualitative Research Methods5

Structured and Unstructured Interviews6

Strengths of the Qualitative Research Methods7

Limitations of Qualitative Research Methods7

Quantitative Research Methods8

Strengths of Quantitative Research10

Limitations of Quantitative Research11

Data (Quantitative) Analysis Technique13

Design and Analysis of Frequency Tables13

Variance and discriminate analysis13

Multivariate data analysis13

Ethical issues15

Limitations15

Research Proposal: In Canada, are public school winter holidays still generally organized around Christian holidays rather than those of any other religions

Research Question

In Canada, are public schools winter holidays still generally organized around Christian holidays rather than those of any other religions.

Sample

Sampling Method

Creswell (2005) amongst others emphasis the importance of selecting sample criteria prior to conducting research to ensure bias sampling does not occur. Sampling helps to ensure accuracy of data collected as well as saving time and money.

The sampling techniques used by the author are:

Purposive Sampling

Random Sampling

The participants for the quantitative phase were selected through random sampling. In random sampling method, each item in the population has the same probability of being selected as part of the sample as any other item. Thus the participants i.e. in this case the employees were selected purposefully for the interview.

Sampling Procedures

Once applied the polls, came to the codification and tabulation of the information gathered, for this was created a database in MS Access, which allows us to store large amounts of data across tables (set of records, in our case, the responses for each question) and place on forms (set of fields where data can be captured and are constructed from the tables), besides being able to consult on specific information quickly and accurately.

Each survey was captured as it was answered by the student, however, had to apply some criteria, for example, if a question is not answered, simply stated in the system that had not answered the question, that in the For closed questions (quantitative). In the case of open-ended questions (qualitative), we proceeded similarly, only this time it left the field empty. After the catch, began with the creation of queries, which allowed us to extract the data specified, that is, if we need to know how many respondents answered yes or no to a question especially since it is selected through the functions that are built into MS Access, the system can automatically perform a quick count of answers and present them in tabular form, in this way is very easy to get information for analysis. Even, you can add more criteria to our query, for example: if we want to know how many men and women responded to our question in addition to answering yes or no, it just tells the system to perform the count of responses, this time taking into account The sex of respondents, in this way we obtain a new query but more specific. This versatility allows us to do endless consultations, where we can discriminate or include data according to our needs.

Then, we proceeded to plot the information in the ...