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84 PLANNING EDUCATIONAL <strong>RESEARCH</strong><br />

Box 3.2<br />

Elements of research styles<br />

Model Purposes Foci Key terms Characteristics<br />

Survey Gathering large-scale<br />

data in order to make<br />

generalizations<br />

Describes and explains<br />

Experiment<br />

Ethnography<br />

Generating statistically<br />

manipulable<br />

data<br />

Gathering<br />

context-free data<br />

Comparing under<br />

controlled conditions<br />

Making<br />

generalizations about<br />

efficacy<br />

Objective<br />

measurement of<br />

treatment<br />

Establishing causality<br />

Portrayal of events in<br />

subjects’ terms<br />

Subjective and<br />

reporting of multiple<br />

perspectives<br />

Description, understanding<br />

and<br />

explanation of a<br />

specific situation<br />

Opinions<br />

Scores<br />

Outcomes<br />

Conditions<br />

Ratings<br />

Initial states,<br />

intervention and<br />

outcomes<br />

Randomized controlled<br />

trials<br />

Perceptions and views<br />

of participants<br />

Issues as they emerge<br />

over time<br />

Measuring<br />

Testing<br />

Representativeness<br />

Generalizability<br />

Pretest and post-test<br />

Identification, isolation<br />

and control of key<br />

variables<br />

Generalizations<br />

Comparing<br />

Causality<br />

Subjectivity<br />

Honesty, authenticity<br />

Non-generalizable<br />

Multiple perspectives<br />

Exploration and rich<br />

reporting of a specific<br />

context<br />

Represents wide<br />

population<br />

Gathers numerical data<br />

Much use of<br />

questionnaires and<br />

assessment/test data<br />

Control and<br />

experimental groups<br />

Treats situations like a<br />

laboratory<br />

Causes due to<br />

experimental<br />

intervention<br />

Does not judge worth<br />

Simplistic<br />

Context specific<br />

Formative and<br />

emergent<br />

Responsive to emerging<br />

features<br />

Allows room for<br />

judgements and<br />

multiple perspectives<br />

Emergent issues<br />

Wide database<br />

gathered over a long<br />

period of time<br />

Time-consuming to<br />

process data<br />

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