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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... perspective of different paradigms. Constructivist Paradigm The constructivist paradigm, a long-established worldview ... perspectives within the phenomenon under study? Do the researcher(s) and respondents interact closely? What values ...
... perspective, is multiple and socially constructed. This approach means that reality is local, specific, and co-constructed (Guba & Lincoln, 2005). With a multitude of realities (and the perspectives that emanate from those multiple ...
... perspective is to create “more informed and sophisticated reconstructions” (Guba & Lincoln, 2005, p. 196) from the data collected during the study. The researcher in conjunction with respondents build theory “grounded” in the data and ...
... perspective of the researcher and advocacy emanating from that perspective results in research findings closely aligned with the needs and human rights of the respondents. A second perceived weakness of a constructivist approach is the ...
... perspective on which to rest research when generalizations and breadth are the goals of the effort. Researchers using this paradigmatic perspective employ a priori categories specified and assigned before data collection and analysis ...
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 |
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