Research in the College Context: Approaches and MethodsFrances K. Stage, Kathleen Manning Routledge, 2015 M08 20 - 238 pages Research in the College Context, 2nd Edition provides faculty, students, practitioners, and researchers in the college environment with a manual of diverse approaches and methods for researching higher education and college students. The text offers the reader a variety of qualitative and quantitative research tools including interviewing, surveys, mixed methods, focus groups, visual methods, participatory action research, policy analysis, document analysis and historical methods, secondary data analysis, and use of large national data sets. This revised edition provides readers with current and innovative methodological tools needed to research the complex issues facing higher education today. Each technique is thoroughly presented with accompanying examples, advice for designing research projects, and tips for data collection, analysis, and dissemination of results. Clearly organized and accessible, this volume is the essential guide for experienced and novice researchers. |
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... (Guba & Lincoln, 1990, p. 39). The findings of constructivist paradigm studies result from the interactions between the researcher and respondents. Additional details regarding the constructivist paradigm are summarized in Chapter 2. 2 ...
... Guba, E. G., & Lincoln, Y. S. (1990). Fourth generation evaluation. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Johnson, R. B., & Christensen, L. (2013). (5th ed.). Educational research: Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed approaches. Thousand Oaks, CA ...
... Guba and Lincoln (1994, 2005) offered four paradigms available at the time of their writing: positivist, postpositivism, critical, and constructivism. Other scholars (Anzaldúa, 1999; Denzin, 2014; Heron & Reason, 1997; Wahyuni, 2012) ...
... (Guba & Lincoln, 1994), past paradigm wars have been supplanted with increased understanding that research paradigm deliberations should be conducted such that differences are discussed, areas of overlap and agreement discovered, and ...
... (Guba & Lincoln, 1990, 2005; Lincoln & Guba, 1985; Lincoln, Lynham, & Guba, 2011). The constructivist paradigm is a highly effective perspective on which to rest research when individual, idiosyncratic meaning and depth are the goals of ...
Contents
RespondentBased Methods | |
Focus Groups | |
Mixed Methods | |
Mixed Methods Research | |
Using Original and PreExisting Data and Resources | |
Document Analysis Oral History and Historical Methods | |
Policy Analysis Research | |
Surveys | |
Large Data Set Analysis | |
Large National Datasets | |
Communicating your ResultsAdding to the Knowledge of the Field | |
Contributor Biographies | |
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