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Clarifying Theoretical Orientation, Framing Research Questions, and Selecting Design
A. Stephen Lenz, ph.d., lpc
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A Traditional Look at Components to a Project
How “things” are; how we determine if things exist or not realism, idealism Ontology How “we” know what “we” know Constructionism, Social-Construction, Positivism, Post-positivism Epistemology Ideas with which to think about content and interrelations between experiences and constructs Theory What we want to know based on an ontological, epistemological, and theoretical synthesis of the world around you and your field of interest Research Questions Approach that is suited to answer your research questions Phenomenology. Case studies, experiments, predictive studies, single-case research designs, meta-analyses Methodology Procedure for “seeing” data, implicit sense making, and/or thinking with theory Interviews, naturalistic observations, data mining, experimental manipulation Methods of Data Collection How we re-present data, explicit sense making to an audience Representation The “so what” of the research. Practical and social implications within context of your literature review Conclusions or Non-Conclusions
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Some Examples and Your Applications:
Epistemology Theoretical Orientation Research Question(s) or Problem Statement(s) Methodology
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