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Upcoming Conferences
6-Dec-24 | 6-Dec-24 | The Council on Higher Education (CHE), First Announcement 26 to 28 February 2025; Abstract deadline: 6 December 2024. | www.che.ac.za | research@che.ac.za (cc Qampi.W@che.ac.za) |
31/01/2025 | 31/01/2025 | The 17th World Conference on Information Security Education (WISE2025). Deadline for submission of full papers and working group abstracts: 31 January 2025 | https://sec2025.um.si/ | Maribor, Slovenia |
31/01/2025 | 31/01/2025 | The Southern African Quality Assurance Network (SAQAN), the Council on Higher Education South Africa (CHE-SA) and the University of Johannesburg (UJ) - The SAQAN Journal for Quality Assurance in Higher Education due date for submission to the inaugural volume is 31 January 2025 | https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/saqan/about | |
03/02/2025 | 03/02/2025 | ASSAF Journal Writing and Peer Review Forum Monthly Meeting | https://assaf-org-za.zoom.us/j/93586587715?pwd=VwgRIgELW8BKgV854NnP4l3M7x13nx.1 | Zoom Meeting |
14/02/2025 | 14/02/2025 | Vienna, International Conference on Future of Teaching and Education. Final registration deadline: 25 February 2025 | https://www.icfte.com | Vienna, Austria |
24/02/2025 | 24/02/2025 | 19th International Conference on e-Learning and Digital Learning 2025 Part of the 19th Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2025), 23 - 25 July 2025 | https://www.elearning-conf.org/ | Lisbon, Portugal |
9/03/2025 | 9/03/2025 | The South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists (SAICSIT) 2025 Conference, Due date for abstracts: 9 March 2025 | https://saicsit2025.org.za/ | Durban, South Africa |
10/03/2025 | 10/03/2025 | SACLA Conference 30 July - 1 August 2025 Bloemfontein, South Africa - Paper deadline | https://sacla2025.ufs.ac.za/ | Bloemfontein, South Africa |
13/03/2025 | 13/03/2025 | EDULEARN25, the 17th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies will be held from June 30th to July 2nd, 2025. | https://iated.org/edulearn/online_submission | Palma, Spain |
31/03/2025 | 31/03/2025 | International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Education (ICICTE 2025) - 8 to 10 July 2025. Deadline for paper proposals | http://www.icicte.org/about.html | Chania, Crete |
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Data Collection Methods
Citation: Scribbr. (2021). Research Design: Choosing your Data Collection Methods [Video]. Retrieved from www.youtube.com
Notes:
Surveys – collect data by asking people directly.
Questionnaires – are more common in quantitative research. Allows you to collect consistent data and analyse the responses statistically.
Interviews – more common in qualitative research.
Observations collect data unobtrusively.
- Quantitative observation – Systematically measuring or counting specific events, behaviours, etc.
- Qualitative observation – taking detailed notes and writing rich descriptions of what is observed.
Read more here.
Planning your Data Collection Procedures
Citation: Scribbr. (2021). Research Design: Planning your Data Collection Procedures [Video]. Retrieved from www.youtube.com
Notes:
Consider these questions:
- How will you define and measure your variables?
- How will you ensure your measurements are reliable and valid?
- How will you select and contact your sample?
- Reliability means consistently reproducible results.
- Validity means actually measuring the concept you are interested in.
- Reliability + Validity à Measurement materials should be thoroughly researched and carefully designed.
- All steps should be carried out in the same way for each participant.
- When developing a new instrument, you might want to do a pilot study to check validity and reliability.
- Internal validity helps you establish causality.
- External validity helps you generalise your results to other settings.
- Your data collection procedures can impact both Internal Validity and External Validity.
Sampling Plan
- How many participants do you need for an adequate sample size?
- What criteria will you use to identify eligible participants?
- How will you contact your sample?
Probability Sampling
- How will you ensure a high response rate?
Non-probability sampling
- How will you avoid bias and ensure a representative sample?
Types of Qualitative Data Analysis
Citation: Research Tube. (2021). Types of Qualitative Data Analysis [Video]. Retrieved from www.youtube.com