Research designs in ‘religious didactics’

21 Genre and Disciplinary Work in French Didactics Research

introduction How genre is understood and configured in analyses of disciplinary texts and discourses is key to understanding the nature of student work in the disciplines. The question of genre is also intimately linked to what we know about expert texts in a discipline. These relationships have been studied for some time in France, first through traditional-formalist frames of text types and m...

Research Designs

Representations of Religious Words: Insights for Religious Priming Research

Researchers often expose participants to a series of words (e.g., religion, God, faith) to activate religious concepts and observe their subsequent effects on people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. This research has revealed many important effects of experimentally manipulated religious cognition in domains ranging from prosocial behavior to prejudice. However, it is not exactly clear what...

Study designs in clinical research.

In nephrology research, both observational studies and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are commonly applied. Clinicians using the evidence from epidemiological studies should be aware of the specific qualities and limitations of each study design. The purpose of the article is therefore to provide a brief overview of the range of study designs and to comment on the most important strengths ...

Bias in qualitative research designs.

Quantitative researchers speak of 'bias' and 'generalisability'. Qualitative researchers address the same issues, but seldom use these terms. Like any other researchers, they are concerned with the extent to which their research is valid and representative of the area being investigated, but the way in which these issues are addressed is substantially different from the way in which quantitativ...