Data Collection
Kinds of Sources
Ways of Knowing
Project Design
100
Using surveys is a common example of this kind of data collection.
What is quantitative research?
100
Newspaper articles, diaries and interviews are examples of this kind of research
What is primary source research?
100
An approach that uses methods from the "hard" and social sciences to do educational research.
What is a positivistic approach?
100
In planning a research project, developing a specific and narrow one of these is essential.
What is a research question?
200
A teacher asking students to keep journals about their learning is using this mode of data analysis.
What is qualitative research?
200
Literature reviews are a common way of gathering together existing knowledge in this kind of research.
Who is secondary source research?
200
This mode of research uses strategies from both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection.
What is mixed methods analysis?
200
Another name for the tools a researcher uses to answer their research questions.
What are methods?
300
The use of a group conversation to generate data, as seen here
What is a focus group?
300
A method for researching not only what a participant says but how they say it.
What are interviews?
300
A researcher interested in a phenomenological approach to research would likely use this kind of data collection.
What is qualitative research?
300
These must balance the risk posed to research participants with the possible benefits of participating in the project.
What are research ethics?
400
Phenomenography is an example of this mode of data collection.
What are mixed methods analysis?
400
Research done in this kind of setting is exempt from ethics review
What is observation of people in public places?
400
A worldview that understands non-human agents (plants and animals as well as objects) as having important expertise and knowledge.
What are Indigenous epistemologies?
400
An agreement made between researchers and participants, as seen here
What is a consent form?
500
In this mode of data collection, borrowed from ethnography, a researcher takes part in an event and then reports on it.
What is participant observation?
500
Sources that are respected within a domain of research and practice.
What are discipline-specific sources?
500
This philosopher's concept of situated knowledge is one example of an epistemological question about research.
Who is Donna Haraway?
500
The stage of research where you share your findings with participants, stakeholders, and other audiences.
What is knowledge mobilization?