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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... constructivist paradigm, also called interpretive and hermeneutic, supports the idea that “realities are constructions in the mind” (Guba & Lincoln, 1990, p. 39). The findings of constructivist paradigm studies result from the ...
... constructivism. Other scholars (Anzaldúa, 1999; Denzin, 2014; Heron & Reason, 1997; Wahyuni, 2012) outlined additional choices ... constructivist, and critical theory paradigms (1990–2005); and the current conflict between evidence-based ...
... For the purposes of this volume, the paradigms discussed within this chapter are the constructivist, positivist, postpositivist, and critical. TABLE 2.1 Research Issues within Paradigms Positivist Paradigm Research Issues.
... Constructivist Paradigm The constructivist paradigm, a long-established worldview through which research can be conducted, has meaning and understanding as its end goals (Guba & Lincoln, 1990, 2005; Lincoln & Guba, 1985; Lincoln, Lynham ...
... Constructivist Paradigm Components Researchers conducting studies from a constructivist paradigmatic perspective work with categories and interpretations that emerge from the data. They analyze data through inductive means (i.e. ...
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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