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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... conducted. Information about critical approaches to research is included in a number of chapters in the second edition. The second edition chapter on Ethnographic Interviewing (Chapter 3) is expanded to include the various forms of ...
... conduct a comprehensive study of the numbers of students and their types of disabilities. The Director of Residence Life has spent the last several years dealing with increasing levels of issues related to drinking in general as well as ...
... conduct a system-wide study of the kinds of remediation offered and the success rates for various populations of ... conducted research on the approaches described and can be called expert at their particular method. The chapters ...
... conduct culturally relevant research by studying institutions and people in context... and to study new populations and use new analytic methods to reveal more about inequities in education” (Stage & Wells, 2014, pp. 2–3). These terms ...
... conducted, particularly with the use of public resources, should include consideration of the ways that the findings can build a greater good and inform social practice. Ideally, a research question is tangible and authentic. In other ...
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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Research in the College Context: Approaches and Methods Frances K. Stage,Kathleen Manning Limited preview - 2013 |
Research in the College Context: Approaches and Methods Frances K. Stage,Kathleen Manning Limited preview - 2003 |