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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... discuss research methods that place the respondent in the center of the research process. Anna M. Ortiz shared extensive information about a staple of qualitative research in “Chapter 3: The Qualitative Interview.” Jillian Kinzie ...
... discussions of historical methods and policy analysis. Michelle Dionne Thompson, in “Chapter 8: Document Analysis, Oral History, and Historical Methods” explains how historical documents and methods along with oral histories can be used ...
... discussion to inform all on the issue. A professor in the School of Business notices that increasing numbers of students are veterans of the armed services. Among them some suffer from war-related disabilities, others commute to campus ...
... discussion of research must begin with a common understanding of definitions and terms that clarify meaning. Given the possible range and scope of research project activities just described, all of which can loosely be defined as ...
... discussion of the research question development. Finally, the possible approaches one might take to answer research questions are introduced here and expanded in Chapter 2. 1. Research can be roughly separated into basic and applied ...
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 - 2013 |
Research in the College Context: Approaches and Methods Frances K. Stage,Kathleen Manning Limited preview - 2003 |