¶ … Creswell, 2009). Given the range of resources that will come under study in this research, a meta-analysis is not readily applicable. Typically, with a retrospective study of this scale, more research is discarded than retained for analysis. Further, a number of large studies have been conducted on this general topic, including research commissioned by Congress ("CNSTAT," 2003; OTA," 1983). Using a descriptive research approach, the researcher will utilize primary and secondary data sources (Creswell, 2009). Document review will constitute a large proportion of the secondary research data. Primary research will consist of interviews with select Individuals in professional positions who are privy to agency information about the use and outcomes of polygraphs.
Instrumentation
The corpus of literature will provide a substantive amount of secondary data for analysis and will inform the direction of further efforts at primary research. A comprehensive literature review will be employed to identify pertinent documents for study. The focus of the inquiry is the use of polygraphs for the purpose of selecting candidates for police training and hiring by police forces of various types, including municipal police departments, state troopers, and federal special agency forces.
The purpose of the structured interviews is to enhance access to information about misconduct statistics in which personnel selection included the use of polygraphs. Secondary research data will coded using a constant comparative qualitative technique or through the use of qualitative research data (QRD) software. In either case, the role...
This is a conventional approach to selecting study participants in qualitative research.
Sampling Procedures
The sampling frame will be non-probability sampling based on the identification of agencies that use polygraphs in their selection of police training candidates and similar applications. The sampling process will entail convenience sampling according to the availability of participants with relevant knowledge about the use of polygraphs in their organizations, and also on the willingness of individuals in the population to participate in the study.
Sample Demographics
The organizations and agencies from which study participants will be selected include metropolitan police departments, state troopers departments, and federal agencies with policing functions. The member associations of each of these groups, in as much as they can be publically access, will be contacted for help with the task of identifying research participants. As these organizations and agencies will be accessed via email, key personnel in each agency responsible for screening and escalating requests for access to records must be identified. Given that the proposed research is qualitative in nature and will employ conventional…
Worldview Perspective Insights from Considering Worldviews Creswell (2014) discusses four philosophical worldviews: post-positivism, constructivism, transformative, and pragmatism that can be applied to the proposed topic for this research is a comparison of brand loyalty among young people in the United States and Kenya. Each perspective carries different ramifications for studying the analysis of brand loyalty amongst the intended demographics. While many areas in Kenya are modernized and have incorporated Western views and
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