Qualitative research in education; a user's guide.0761929355 Qualitative research Qualitative research Traditional analysis of firm-specific prospects for future earnings. It may be based on data collected by the analysts, there is no formal quantitative framework used to generate projections. in education; a user's guide. Lichtman, Marilyn. Sage Publications This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. 2006 249 pages $77.95 Hardcover LB1028 Designed as a classroom text, this introduction to the field gives advanced undergraduate and early postgraduate students sufficient theory and methodology to design research, gather and organize information and analyze results through readings, examples, explanatory text and individual and group activities. Lichtman (educational research and evaluation emerita e·mer·i·ta adj. Retired but retaining an honorary title corresponding to that held immediately before retirement. Used of a woman: a professor emerita. n. pl. , Virginia Technical U.) begins with an overview of the traditions and influences of modern educational qualitative research, including the development of the inductive inductive 1. eliciting a reaction within an organism. 2. inductive heating a form of radiofrequency hyperthermia that selectively heats muscle, blood and proteinaceous tissue, sparing fat and air-containing tissues. approach and describes ethnologies, phenomenological inquiry, case studies, feminist research methods and the generic approach. She then describes developing research questions, conducting literature reviews, interviewing, observing, and putting it all together by making meaning from data, communicating ideas, judging and evaluating, and considering self-reflexivity and subjectivity. She also gives tips on keeping current with an evolving field and offers a checklist for individual and focus group interviews and a glossary A term used by Microsoft Word and adopted by other word processors for the list of shorthand, keyboard macros created by a particular user. See glossaries in this publication and The Computer Glossary. . ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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