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Styles of educational research
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Naturalistic and ethnographic Historical and documentary Surveys, longitudinal, cross-sectional
and trend studies Internet-based and computer use Case studies Experiments, quasi-experiments, single
case research Action research
Strategies for data collection
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QuestionnairesInterviewsAccounts
ObservationTests
Personal constructs
Naturalistic and ethnographic style
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Tries to answer three questions:
1.What are the characteristics of a social phenomena?
2.What are the causes of the social phenomena?
3.What are the consequences of the social phenomena?
Naturalistic and ethnographic style 2
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Is concerned with Description (rather than prediction)Induction Generation (rather than verification)
Construction (rather than enumeration)
Subjectivities
Naturalistic and ethnographic style 3
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Main kinds of naturalistic inquiry- Case study
- Comparative studies- Retrospective studies- Longitudinal studies
- Ethnography (portrayal and explanation of social groups in real-life context)
- Biography
Naturalistic and ethnographic style 4
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Main methods (data collection)
Participant observationInterviews and conversations
Documents and field notes Accounts
Notes and memos
Historical and documentary
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Definition
”Systematic and objective location, evaluation and syntheis of evidence in order to establish facts
and draw conclusions abut past events” (p. 191)
Historical and documentary 2
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Tries to answer the questions:
1.Where do the events take place?2. Who are the people involved?
3. When do the events occur?4. What kinds of human activity
are involved?
Historical and documentary 3
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Data collectionPRIMARY SOURCES (original )- Relics of a period (fossils, weapons,
skeletons, coins, etc.)- Manuscrips, charters, laws, files, biography,
newspapers, films, transcriptins, wills, etc. SECONDARY SOURCES- textbooks, encyclopedias, quoted materials,