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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... 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 research, shared common terms promote understanding ...
... understanding about human and other natural processes... Applied research focuses on answering real-world, practical questions to provide relatively immediate solutions” (Johnson & Christensen, 2013, p. 10). 2. Assessment is “any effort ...
... understanding that we have been able to produce thus far, not a statement of what is ultimately real” (Polkinghorne, 1983, p. 2). Additional details regarding the postpositivist paradigm are summarized in Chapter 2. 4. The critical ...
... understanding of how college-aged students develop?” With an understanding of the research context into which a project falls, decisions about methodology can be made with more ease, research topics can gain and/or retain clarity, and ...
... Understanding educational research. New York: Routledge. Scott, D., & Usher, R. (2011). (2nd ed.). Researching education: Data, methods and theory in educational enquiry. London: Bloomsbury Academic. Stage, F. K. (2007). Answering ...
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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