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Independent Study Students--Please make sure I have your book ad choices of groups by this weekend. I want to put those together by next Wed.
ReplyDeleteThanks,
Dr. Hendrix
Question: What would be considered "image" data in qualitative research?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Choose your approach based on you personal experiences and training." (. 63) I find that I identify more with the qualitative approach to research. Quantitative research frightens me a bit because I have no background in statistical measurement and am not very good with numbers.
Interesting Fact: Quantitative research initial ideas came from the physical sciences such as physics and chemistry.
Question: Would the following fall within the category of Quantitative Research? In my 6th grade classroom I am conducting Math in a workshop format. This is where I give a few problems for warm-up, teach a mini lesson, have guided practice, then students go and engage in independent practice. At the end of the workshop we come back together and discuss strategies which have been most effective for them in mastering a particular strategy. My curiosity is that will conducting math in this way as apposed to the traditional lecture raise assessment scores? Will this approach assist students in progressing from Basic to Proficient on the MAP? Will this approach assist students in progressing from Proficient to Advanced on the MAP?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Fit the Approach to Your Audience." (.63) I agree that this factor is extremely important and glad that the text pointed this out as a key factor. The research I do I want to be on the level of my 6th grade student's. If I did not do this, then my results would be inaccurate and very unhelpful to me as a researcher.
Interesting Fact: In the 1980's and early 1990's writers focused on procedures of conducting qualitative research rather than on challenging quantitative research.
Mrs. Dalrymple - would "image" data be the pictures/illustrations which are analyzed in a study?
ReplyDeleteMrs. Dalrymple - I am comforted as well with the text suggesting that as researchers we should select the approach which we are most comfortable with. For the past couple of years I have taken the quantitative approach in analyzing the results of my student's benchmark assessments. I look forward to engaging in a quantitative approach.
ReplyDeleteMrs. Dalrymple - I found your interesting fact rather interesting (dare I use the same word twice in a sentence) as well. I suppose now that I think about this a little more it truly makes since. Since quantitative research focuses on preset questions, and a very detailed outline it makes sense for it to have been derived from physics and chemistry. This is due to in both physics and chemistry there is a lot of work with numbers and a very specific layout of what needs to be done, where it needs to be done and how. Very structured and no room for self-interpretation.
ReplyDeleteCorey Nickell
ReplyDeleteQuestion: On page 61 and 62, Creswell discusses Mixed Method Design. If the mixed method design provides a better understanding of research problems should we be trying to use this method over quantitative or qualitative approaches?
Quote: Page 65, Chapter 2 “Expect that a quantitative study and a qualitative study will not look the same, because they differ in many steps of the research process. At the same time, they use the same general steps of the process.”
Interesting fact: Consider 3 factors when choosing to use a qualitative or quantitative approach. 1) match your approach to your research 2) Fit the approach to your audience 3) Relate the approach to your experiences
Question: How widely accepted is qualitative research which uses participatory and advocacy practices? Does the fact that a researcher is not objective make it more difficult to conduct research, and is this kind of research as widely accepted as other types of research?
ReplyDeleteQuote: pg.50
"Denzin and Lincoln (2005) summarized the following aadvocacy position: Advocacy researchers are not objective, authoritative, or polically neutral. Advocacy researchers see qualitative research as a civic responsibility, a "moral dialogue" (Denzin and Lincoln, 2005, p.1049), and as a means for bringing needed change to our society."
Interesting fact:
It was interesting to me that qualitative research is best suited for problems in which you do not know the variables, and that exploration is required to guide the research. I assumed that researchers would have set variables before beginning a research project.
Question:Creswell explains that many different types of people review research. Examples would be policy makers, faculty and graduate committee members, edoitor and review boards. Which type of research is more credible, qualitative or quantitative?
ReplyDeleteQuote: When discussing qualitative research Creswell explains, "...The author starts with broad, open-ended questions to obtain participants view..." The researchers' intent is to allow the participants to talk openly about their experiences."
Interesting Fact: I thought it was interesting that research was mostly based on quantitative research until the early 1900's. Creswell stated that it really wasn't until the 1960's that philosophers really wanted to learn more about participants' view on education rathar than learning from the researchers in the study.
Barb,
ReplyDeleteI was also wondering how accepted research is when the researcher is admittedly not objective. Interesting...I'm still thinking about that one.
Mrs. Dalrymple,
ReplyDeleteI also liked the quote you found. It makes sense. As teachers, we know that if we can find the "hook" that draws our students in, then their learning is expanded. In the same way, as researchers, when we are passionate about a subject area, our research will naturally be more extensive in that area.
Mrs. Dalrymple,
ReplyDeleteI was also wondering about images associated with qualitative research. I think this could include video images. For example, in the gunman case study they discussed using video tapes of news conferences.
Question: What other types of images could be used in qualitative research?
ReplyDeleteQuote: (65)"Quantitative and Qualitative characteristics reside on a continuum-any one study may not have all of the characteristics of either quantitative or qualitative research, but studies tend toward one end of the continuum or the other."
Interesting Fact: Correlational designs are a type of quantitative research that express a degree of association between two or more variables. (I am interested to read more about this type of research in chapter 12.) It would be interesting to read research on correlations between high school drop outs and other significant factors, such as poverty or IQ scores, etc.
Question: When choosing a historical research that would involve background knowledge how could using more than one approach facilitate the process?
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"Given these three approaches, what factors affect a choice of one approach over another for the design of a proposal? Three considerations play into this decison: the research problem, the pesonal experiences of the researcher, and the audience(s) for who the reprot will be written." (p.21 A Framework for Design)
I am contemplating my topic for research and it may involve some background and historical resarch. I know that this may also require using qualitative and quantitative approaches.
According to Creswell, depending on the audience and the personal experience of the researcher all three approaches could be used. I am considering researching the effects of NCLB has had on student's performance in school. If it has made improvements in students overall academic performance or if after ten years the the data shows we are about the same in student's academic performance. I anticipate this research could involve both qualitative research and quantitative research because I believe the data will give me the quantitative analysis I need but I wonder if the qualitative would need to be drawn from methods used in the classroom to improve testing. I started teaching about ten years before NCLB became law. My background and experience would definately support this question. I am interested in seeing how this federal mandate has helped overall student's academic performance in the last ten years.
LaDawndra,
ReplyDeleteI like your idea here. If I were doing this study, I would use a mixed method format because you will have nice, rich data from interviews with students and teachers about their performance as well as the test scores.
You should ask your chair of your committee too though.
Keep up the good work,
Dr. Hendrix
Ann D,
ReplyDeleteYou are describing a quantitative study here since you are focusing on their improvement based in their test scores. If you wanted, you could add a qualitative piece too though with interviews to get the respondants' ideas and perspectives.
Good work,
Dr. Hendrix
In the first chapter, I was worried about having to find a previous study on the topic that I had chosen to research on, but now in Chap 2, I see that if I choose a qualitative research project, that it might, " play a minor role in suggesting a specific research question to be asked." (pg 53). I know me, I don't want to choose the easy way out, I want the topic to be important to me!
ReplyDeleteFact: " In qualitative research, you seek to learn from the participants in the study, and develop forms, called protocols." I have never heard of this form of research collection. But I am interested in trying this form. I like the idea of trying to use both forns of collection.
Question: If my research is based on a topic which already groups the participants by gender, do I also need to break each of those groups into subgroups? If so, do I need to take every different angle I can think of when doing so?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Traditional investigations created a contrived situation in which the research participant was 'taken out' of context and placed within an experimental situation far removed from his or her personal experiences."
Interesting Fact: In qualitative research, the literature review plays a less substantial role at the beginning of the study.
To Ann D. I like the idea of your study. I was curious, though, how will you account for the fact that some students would have advanced no matter what type of instruction they received?
To Mrs. Dalrymple I like the idea of choosing an approach with which we identify. Yet, if our research question leads us to which approach needs to be used, I wonder if we actually have that freedom.