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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... can be experienced... The adequacy of knowledge increases as it approximates the forms of explanation which have been achieved by the most advanced sciences” (Polkinghorne, 1983, pp. 18–19). Additional details regarding the positivist.
... positivist 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 ...
... positivistic and the new or emergent, evolved into the predominant perspectives from which research was conducted. Because ... positivist, postpositivism, critical, and constructivism. Other scholars (Anzaldúa, 1999; Denzin, 2014; Heron ...
... positivist, postpositivist, and critical. TABLE 2.1 Research Issues within Paradigms Positivist Paradigm Research Issues.
... Positivist Paradigm Research Issues Qualitative Quantitative Scope Findings Focus Constructivist Paradigm Data Results Depth Descriptive and interpretive Individual and Individuals, groups Idiographic Context dependent Breadth Breadth ...
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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