Research Approaches
qualitative research quantitative research mixed methods research
What are the three types of research designs
Basic set of beliefs that guide one's actions
What are Philosophical worldviews?
Experimental designs (specific treatment influences an outcome) Non-experimental designs (e.g., surveys - trends, attitudes, opinions of a population by studying samples) (1 of 2)
What are Quantitative Strategies?
Basic set of beliefs that guide action also known as epistemology ontology
What is philosophical worldview?
Explores in depth a program, process, event variety of data collection over a period of time
What are case studies?
Exploring and understanding meaning of social or human problems emerging questions and procedures data collected in natural setting data analysis inductive style
What is Qualitative Research
AKA strategies of inquiry
What is research design?
Narrative research phenomenology ethnographies grounded theory studies case study
What are Qualitative Strategies?
Philosophical Worldview (1 of 4) quantitative determination reductionism knowledge can never be found empirical observation and measurement (scientific method) theory verification cause-and-effect deductive 19th century writers Conte and Locke
What is Postpositivism?
Study small number of subjects through extensive and prolonged engagement to develop patterns and relationships of meaning
What is phenomenological research?
Examines relationships among variables variables measured with instruments statistical analysis final report: introduction literature and theory methods results discussion
What is Quantitative Research?
Philosophical worldview, research design, research methods
What are the components of choosing a research method?
Multiple forms of data drawing on all possibilities
What are Mixed Methods Strategies?
Philosophical Worldview (2 of 4) qualitative understanding multiple participant meanings (humans) social and historical construction theory generation open-ended questioning inductive
What is Constructivism?
Researcher studies the lives of individuals and asks one or more individuals to provide stories about their lives; retold in narrative chronology
What is narrative research?
Combines both qualitative and quantitative approaches in tandem philosophical assumptions
What is mixed methods research?
Postpostivism, Constructivism, Transformative, Pragmatism
What are the four world-views?
Researcher studies an intact cultural group, natural setting over a long period of time
What is ethnography?
Philosophical Worldview (3 of 4) qualitative (can lead to quantitative) political empowerment issue oriented collaborative change-oriented focus on marginalized or disenfranchised Marx, Marcuse and Participatory (AKA Advocacy and Participatory)
What is transformative?
Which design is most needed in education today?
What is a longitudinal design?
The plan or proposal to conduct research intersection of philosophy strategies of inquiry specific methods
What is Research Design?
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What is EDFN 5000?
Derives general, abstract theory of a process, action, or interaction grounded in views of participants; constant comparison of data with emerging categories and sampling of different groups to compare similarities and differences
What is grounded theory?
Philosophical Worldview (4 of 4) consequences of actions problem-centered pluralistic real-world practice oriented
What is Pragmatic?
Research problem and question, personal experiences, Audiences
What are some other factors in choosing a research method?