This is a graded discussion: 20 points possible
Once the research protocols have been developed and tested the participating respondents will need to be identified in order to collect your field research data. The respondents In this section you are merely addressing the collection of your field research data through selected participants or sampling groups.
What sampling approach will you as a researcher use; purposeful sampling, homogeneous sampling, snowball sampling? What sampling size or number of respondents will be used to accomplish saturation of data? How will you validate the validity of your protocols and sampling group? What is the purpose of a Beta test on your research protocols?
