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2024-2025 Student Handbook 
    
2024-2025 Student Handbook

Types of Research - SBBS Dissertation Manual


Students from PsyD and PhD programs are encouraged to conduct a research study within a quantitative, qualitative or mixed methodological scope. Examples of types of research are summarized in the following tables:

Quantitative Studies Qualitative Studies Mixed-method Studies

Descriptive

Correlational

Causal comparative

Intervention-type of research:

  • Experimental
  • Quasi-experimenta
  • Pre-experimental

Meta-analysis

Basic interpretative research

Phenomenological research

Grounded Theory

Field research (Ethnography)

Systematic Literature Review

Combines qualitative and quantitative methods

  • Explanatory sequential
  • Exploratory sequential
  • Convergent or concurrent
  • Nested

Single case studies or multiple case studies Program Development (Specific to PsyD Students)

Case studies could be conceptualized within a quantitative or a qualitative scope.

Intervention-type of research to study what treatments work best to improve outcomes.

Related to potentially establishing a new service or the improvement, expansion, or integration of existing services.