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Research Methods
A reading path through related lessons. Shared lessons can appear in more than one path. View curriculum coverage and limits →
What this path helps you do
- Practice supported here
- Connect a question to a design, compare sampling and assignment, and critique quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods claims.
- Preparation
- Bring a published article from your course to compare with the original worked examples.
- Where to go further
- The path supports reasoning but does not replace a full research methods course, statistical software training, or ethics approval.
Correlation, causation & design
Identify what a study design can support.
Qualitative, quantitative & mixed methods
Choose a research design that can answer the actual question.
Sampling, assignment & valid conclusions
Separate who enters a study from how groups are formed.
Read evidence with a critical eye
Evaluate a finding without reducing it to statistical significance.
Turning a clinical curiosity into an answerable research question
Translate a clinical curiosity into a bounded question and estimand.
Reading a qualitative study: credibility, context, and transferability
Trace a qualitative claim from excerpts through analysis to interpretation.
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