1 / 6

Chapter 12

Introduction to Educational Research (5th ed.) Craig A. Mertler & C.M. Charles. Chapter 12 Descriptive Research and Historical Research. The Nature of Descriptive Research and Historical Research. Two fairly similar approaches to research

honey
Download Presentation

Chapter 12

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Introduction to Educational Research (5th ed.) Craig A. Mertler & C.M. Charles Chapter 12 Descriptive Research and Historical Research

  2. The Nature of Descriptive Research and Historical Research • Two fairly similar approaches to research • Summary description: • Purpose—to show status by describing and then interpreting present (descriptive) and past (historical) situations, events, etc. • Hypotheses/questions—research questions are used more than hypotheses • Data—descriptions, analyses, opinions, scores, measurements, and statements from interviews, questionnaires, etc.

  3. The Nature of Descriptive Research and Historical Research (Cont’d.) • Data sources—participants, procedures, informants, settings, records, objects, documents • Data collection—done by researcher, through administration of tests, questionnaires, and interviews • Data analysis—presentation of data in organized fashion (historical); sometimes data are converted to numbers for simplification and/or further analyses (descriptive/historical) • May be brief (descriptive) or substantially longer (historical)

  4. Case Study Research • Descriptive or historical studies of a particular person, group, etc. • Uses the same approaches as previously described, but with a different focus

  5. A Published Example of Descriptive Research Haberman, M. & Rickards, W. (1990). Urban teachers who quit: Why they leave and what they do. Urban Education, 25(3), 297–303. See “Additional Examples of Published Descriptive Research Studies” for 7 additional articles, available through ResearchNavigatorTM (http://www.researchnavigator.com)

  6. A Published Example of Historical Research Durm, M. W. (1993). An A is not an A is not an A: A history of grading. The Educational Forum, 57, 294–297. See “Additional Examples of Published Historical Research Studies” for 9 additional articles, available through ResearchNavigatorTM (http://www.researchnavigator.com)

More Related