Documenting Qualitative Research Findings
The report does not respond to a single communication pattern. It must consider the participant, the research methods, and the intended audience. Each report addresses a hypothetical reader, and this varies according to who requests or requires the report. For example, a report communicating scientific aspects of an investigation differs from one for managers or policymakers, who need very synthetic results to make a decision.
The Problem of Documenting Qualitative Findings
Qualitative research reports
Joint Research Design: Combining Multiple Techniques
Joint Research Design with Several Techniques: Background
The presence of the concurrent use of various techniques of data collection or production must be taken into account.
- Booth’s studies in the life and work of people in London, generated from reports of school visits, participant observation, and analysis of census and other records.
- The study of Middletown by Lynd presents a research model and how the commitment to research results in political compromise. Families were counted and classified;
Natural Science and History: Methods and Problems
Natural Science: The Scientific Method
The sciences that study physical reality are very varied. Some merely observe, describe, and classify things. Their criterion of truth is the precise fit to the object studied. Others want to know the laws governing phenomena and the internal structure of things. They follow the hypothetical-deductive method:
- Discovery of a problem.
- Invention of a hypothesis.
- Formulation of the hypothesis.
- Contrasting the hypothesis.
When the hypothesis is sufficiently corroborated
Read MoreUnderstanding Educational Evaluation and Assessment
1. Concept of Evaluation and Assessment
Two ways to understand evaluation:
- Traditionally: Focused on the results that students obtain from the educational process.
- Currently: Focused on all the processes taking place across the different elements of the curriculum (objectives, content, methodology, teaching and learning experiences, resources and materials, assessment), the organization of the center, the educational authorities, and both teachers and students.
2. Types of Evaluation
- Formative evaluation:
Understanding Triangulation in Research: Methods and Validity
Understanding Triangulation in Research
It is assumed that whatever technique is used, it points to the same reality. It does not change the reality itself; what changes, at most, is the focus. However, all approaches must tend towards a convergence of results. If they do not converge, this is one of the main problems: triangulation has been poorly implemented in at least some of the techniques.
Triangulation has been established as a methodology and strategy for assessing and monitoring research
Read MoreScience, Research, and Paradigms: Key Concepts Explained
Science, Research, and Paradigms
Science: Systematic and organized accumulation of knowledge obtained by methods based on systematic observation.
Features of Science:
- Static: Development and accumulation of knowledge and establishment of general laws and theories.
- Dynamic: Discovery and problem-solving to achieve progress and improvement.
Research: The process by which we try to get systematic information, always based on evidence.
Research Methods:
- Trial and error
- History
- Personal experience
- Deductive
- Inductive