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PURPOSES OF RESEARCH DESCRIBE EXPLAIN INFER PREDICT

GENERALITY TO SPECIFICITY IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH PATTERNS POSITIVIST SPECIFIC: UNIQUE INTERPRETIVE

DEGREES OF INTERVENTION HIGH HIGH INTERVENTION MEDIUM INTERVENTION LOW Experiment, action research, case study LOW INTERVENTION Ethnography survey, tests, case study

PROOF DIAGNOSIS MEASUREMENT EVALUATION INFERENCE INTERVENTION EXPLANATION PORTRAYAL DESCRIPTION

QUANTITATIVE QUALITATIVE APPROACHES APPROACHES Numbers/statistics Words/illuminative Pre-determined Open-ended/responsive Measuring Portraying Patterns/regularities Uniqueness Comparing Portraying Describing Explaining/interpreting Objective facts Subjective perceptions Outsider looking in Insider looking within Structured Unstructured/semi-structured Value-neutral Value-laden

Instruments for collecting data Specific research questions Constraints, time frames, sequence Aims, purposes, focuses Ethical issues RESEARCH DESIGN Piloting Sampling Methodology Politics Reliability and validity