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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... research is conducted. Information about critical approaches to research is included in a ... researchers understand the importance of including coresearchers and ... paradigm, developing questions, and other basic design concerns in the ...
... researcher and respondents. Additional details regarding the constructivist paradigm are summarized in Chapter 2. 2. The positivistic paradigm with its resulting scientific inquiry supports the idea that “knowledge [is] confined to what ...
... paradigm are summarized in Chapter 2. 3. “Postpositivistic science does not propose a unified view of science.... The knowledge claims that a community accepts are those that withstand the test of practical argument and use. Knowledge ...
... research must be considered. This exploration on the part of the researcher builds ... researchers loop back and forth, move forward a step or two before going ... paradigm that forms the foundation, guides the assumptions, and determines ...
... Scientific Revolutions in 1962. Paradigms are not fixed but, as human constructions, evolve over time. This chapter acknowledges that evolution while summarizing several paradigm choices available to researchers. Paradigm. and.
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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