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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... critical approaches to research is included in a number of chapters in the second edition. The second edition ... paradigm, developing questions, and other basic design concerns in the chapters, “Chapter 1: Choosing a Method: What is ...
... paradigm are summarized in Chapter 2. 4. The critical paradigm, also called transformational, employs research to advocate for societal changes that increase equity and distribution of economic, social, and other forms of power among ...
... paradigm that forms the assumptions of the study, identifies the literature from which the research emerges and to ... critical quantitative approaches see Stage (2007) and Stage and Wells (2014). Schwandt (2007) provides a resource for ...
... paradigm debate has raged since Thomas Kuhn wrote The Structure of ... critical, and constructivism. Other scholars (Anzaldúa, 1999; Denzin, 2014 ... paradigm considerations since the 1980s. These authors proposed three periods of ...
... paradigm wars have been supplanted with increased understanding that research paradigm deliberations should be conducted such that differences are ... critical. TABLE 2.1 Research Issues within Paradigms Positivist Paradigm Research Issues.
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 |
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