Africa Researcher Development (ARD)
Level Up Your Research Skills
Quantitative Research
- Quantitative research proposal
- Constructing questionnaire
- Capturing questionnaire in SPSS
- Data screening and cleaning: Frequences, Descriptives, and Explore
- Normality Test: Q-Q Plots / P-P; Shapiro-Wilk or Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test
- Homogeneity Test: Levene’s Test Tests whether the variances of dependent variables are equal across groups, which is a requirement for parametric tests like t-tests and ANOVA.
- Internal Consistency/Reliability
- Cronbach’s Alpha. Checks if items within a survey or scale are reliable and measure the same construct.
- Relationship & Structure Checks. Bivariate Correlations. Examine preliminary relationships between numerical variables. Crosstabs. Explore the relationship between two categorical variables.
- Data TransformationRecode Variables Cleaning data, such as changing raw scores into age groups or reversing negatively phrased items. Compute Variable. Creating composite scores (e.g., averaging 5 Likert items to create one total score).
- Inferential Statistics: Tests hypotheses and draws conclusions about a population from a sample, including t-tests, z-tests, and ANOVA (analysis of variance).
- Regression Analysis: Evaluates the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables to predict future outcomes.
- Correlation Analysis: Measures the strength and direction of the relationship between two variables.
- Time Series Analysis: Analyzes a series of data points collected over time to forecast trends.
- Factor Analysis: Reduces a large set of variables into fewer, underlying factors.
- Cluster Analysis: Groups data points with similar characteristics.
- Structural Equation Modelling (SEM): Models complex relationships between observed and latent variables.
- Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA): Identifies patterns, trends, and outliers in data without specific hypotheses
Level Up Your Research Skills
Qualitative Research
- Ethnography
- Narrative
- Phenomenology
- Case Study
- Grounded Theory
- Qualitative Research Proposal
- Constructive an interview protocol
- Qualitative analysis
Level Up Your Consultancy Skills
Management Consultant Tool Kit
- Strategic Management
- Change Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk Management
- Project Management
- Management Consultancy
- Corporate Governance
- People Management
- Operations Management
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Call For Papers
Authors are invited to submit empirical, theoretical papers or even short insights on entrepreneurship and management studies as understod and practiced in Africa. Check our aims and scope for guidance regarding topics.
Call For Editorial Board Members
If you hold a PhD in Management, Business Administration, Entrepreeurship or related business specialization, and are interested in advancing knowledge, you are cordially invited to join our editorial board. There are reviewer and associate editor positions. Send email to the Chief Editor, Dr Charlie via amer@sbgazim.com
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