Section outline

  • Session content: 

    • Keys components of a research protocol
    • Presentation of a research protocol for appropriate approval
    • Interviewer’s selection / recruitment
    • Fieldwork plan
    • Fieldwork infrastructure (cars, labs equipment, anthropometrics, others…)

    Session learning objectives:

    • Students should be able to design a good quantitative purpose statement and good quantitative research questions and hypotheses.
    • Students should know the steps in the process of quantitative data collection
    • Students should understand the link between quantitative research questions and data collection and how research questions are operationalized in research practice
    • Students should be able to develop a successful study design and understand the steps in developing a good research protocol