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Research Methodologies
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Overview of Presentation
Overview of Quantitative/Qualitative Methodologies
Focus on Qualitative Research
Questions, Characteristics, Methods, Data Analysis, Credibility
Research Methodologies / Methods & GILD
Discussion
Overview of Research Methodologies
Qualitative Research
Ethnography, Case Study, Grounded Theory, Autobiography, Participatory Action Research, Phenomenology (each grounded in a specific discipline and philosophical assumptions)
Quantitative Research
Survey methods, Experiments
Mixed Methods
Draw from qualitative and quantitative methods
Quantitative
A quantitative approach is one in which the investigator primarily uses post-positivist claims for developing knowledge (i.e. cause and effect thinking, reduction to specific variables and hypotheses and questions, use of measurement and observation, and the test of theories). (Creswell, 2003, p.19)
Qualitative - Definition
A qualitative approach is one in which the inquirer often makes knowledge claims based primarily on constructivist perspectives (i.e. the multiple meanings of individual experiences, meanings socially and historically constructed, with an intent of developing a theory or pattern) or advocacy/participatory perspectives (i.e. political, issue-oriented, collaborative or change oriented) or both. (Creswell, 2003, p.18)
Characteristics of Qualitative Research
Takes place in the natural setting
Uses multiple methods that are interpretive
Is emergent rather than tightly prefigured
Fundamentally interpretive (role of researcher as interpreter)
Researcher views social phenomena holistically
Researcher systematically reflects on who he or she is in the inquiry and is sensitive to hiw or her personal biography and how it shapes the study
Researcher uses complex reasoning that is multifaceted, iterative, and simultaneous
Researcher adopts and uses one or more strategies of inquiry