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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... inquiry supports the idea that “knowledge [is] confined to what has been experienced or can be experienced... The adequacy of knowledge increases as it approximates the forms of explanation which have been achieved by the most advanced ...
... inquiry that help us understand and explain the meaning of social phenomena.... Other terms often used interchangeably are naturalistic inquiry, interpretive research, field study, participant observation, inductive research, case study ...
... inquiry. Joyner, Rouse, and Glatthorn, (2013) and Galvan (1999) provide information on writing dissertations and conducting literature reviews. Scott and Usher (1996; 2011) discuss the political and philosophical ramifications of ...
... inquiry. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. Rudestam, K., & Newton, R. R. (1992). Surviving your dissertation. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Schwandt, T. A. (2007). (3rd ed.). The SAGE dictionary of qualitative inquiry. Thousand ...
... inquiry, nature of explanation, and the role of values within the constructivist paradigm (Creswell, 2012a; Erlandson, Harris, Skipper, & Allen, 1993; Guba & Lincoln, 1990, 2005; Lincoln & Guba, 1985; Lincoln, Lynham, & Guba, 2011) ...
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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