What? How? Why?
Why so Few? (IT Dissertations?)
What Does a Researcher Do?(Ethics)
Is this Really True? (Validity)
So What? (Contributions)
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How do you even say this type of research?
his·to·ri·og·ra·phy/hiˌstôrēˈägrəfē/ Want to hear it pronounced? Listen
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In doing a search on ProQuest Dissertation Publications, the number of dissertations for "Educational Technology historiography" was a total under 10. Why do you think this is so few?
Historiography as a dissertation process does not have a typical form or template as you may have seen with other qualitative dissertations. Each dissertation has an introducation, a literature review and a methodology chapter. In the historigraphic disseration, this information is provided in some form perhaps not individual chapters. In additons, the analysis and results chapters may take on a chronlogical, thematic or other method to share the information.
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True or False: Historiographers are required to complete the CITE, American Psychological Association ethics, the NIU Dissertation Writer’s Workshop or the National Institute of Health’s Human Participants Protection Education for Research Teams.
True CITI - https://www.citiprogram.org/Default.asp? APA - http://www.apa.org/ethics/code/index.aspx NIH - http://humansubjects.energy.gov/doe-resources/nih-trng.htm
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What is External Criticism?
External criticism refers to the determination of authenticity and trustworthiness of the source document or artifact, which can involve the where and when the item was produced. Ultimately, a researcher wants assurance that the document or artifact is genuine.
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As a historiographer, you must be aware and pay attention to your own___________
Interpretations. As a historiographer, you write of your interpretations of past events and must be aware of personal biases that may slant the data to a particular point of view.
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Why is objectivity important?
As a historiographer, you record your interpretations of events.
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What is, "on the past"?
Historical research: focuses on the past.
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Examples of Primary sources in a historiography are:
Journal articles, artifacts and relics, interviews, books, museums collections, school collections and more.
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What is Internal Criticism?
The next process after documents and artifacts are proven authentic is internal criticism, which focuses on the information contained in the source such as the author’s competency to give an accurate report, to examine if the author has included fictional or exaggerated details, in other words to discover any biases to personal accounts of events.
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The purpose of conducting a historical research project is to:
Add to the knowledge base, provide a unique perspective on event that happened over time, to learn from the past, to gain knowledge on how to proceed in the future.
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What is historical research?
The study of actions, events, and phenomena that have already occurred; involves the study of documents and records with information about the topic under study.
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What is a reverse-chronological method for finding resources?
Although reverse chronology may be a self-identified method for finding resources you may use the bibliographic and references in journals and books to find sources for the specific time period.
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Why do historiographers use external and internal criticism?
To be certain about accuracy and genuineness of historical sources the use of external and internal criticism generates descriptions, and sometimes attempted explanations, of conditions, situations, and events that have occurred in the past.
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What are processes of Internal Criticism?
Internal criticism includes positive criticism, awareness of vagueness and presentism, and then negative criticism as a final validation process.
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What is it called when data needs to be free from bias?
Integrity of data. Similar to other data-driven results, historical research has tools to ensure integrity of the data gathered.
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It is important to remember that the goal of any research project is a desire to?
Make things better, improve specific practice or correct something that is not working well, to discover and to make connections. This is true in any quantitative, qualitative including historical research project.
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How do you define Positive Criticism and Vagueness?
Positive criticism, a technique to ensure that statements made and the meaning conveyed are truthful and correct and is used to further validate the data. Interpretation of words, terms used in historical documents must be in context, which is difficult as words or phrases change over time. This difficultly may be caused by vagueness and presentism. Vagueness refers to the unclear meaning of words or phrases used in the source document. The researcher may not interpret the context as originally intended.
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In review - what is a historiography?
Historiography is the study of actions, events, and phenomena that have already occurred; involves the study of documents and records with information about the research questions posed
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Do you want to learn more about Historiography?
Yes, of course you do. Go to Historiography Infographic
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Limitations on conducting a historical dissertation are:
Availability of resources, locating persons of interests, internet accessible information or lack of, authenticity and reliabilty of data found, make accurate relationships from the past to the future to list a few limitations.
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After identifying and limiting the topic, the next step is preliminary information gathering,
Reconnaissance Conducting reconnaissance takes three forms, 1. Self-reflection 2. Description 3. Explanation
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What is Presentism?
Presentism refers to the use of a present day term to the past. Note: I am aware of the assumption of using a current term to the past. The term handheld devices will be used to describe and identify instructional tools used in the past although a handheld device was not a term used in the 1950s-1980s. Just imagine my excitement when I found a term that represents what I am constructing - take the term "Handheld device" back to the past.
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Of course! Go to Resources and Reference
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