Full Description
Research in the College Context, 2nd Edition provides faculty, students, practitioners, and researchers in the college environment with a manual of diverse approaches and methods for researching higher education and college students. The text offers the reader a variety of qualitative and quantitative research tools including interviewing, surveys, mixed methods, focus groups, visual methods, participatory action research, policy analysis, document analysis and historical methods, secondary data analysis, and use of large national data sets. This revised edition provides readers with current and innovative methodological tools needed to research the complex issues facing higher education today. Each technique is thoroughly presented with accompanying examples, advice for designing research projects, and tips for data collection, analysis, and dissemination of results. Clearly organized and accessible, this volume is the essential guide for experienced and novice researchers.
Contents
Preface
Part 1: Developing a Context for Research
Chapter 1: Choosing a Method: What is your Question?
Frances K. Stage and Kathleen Manning
Chapter 2: What Is Your Research Approach?
Kathleen Manning and Frances K. Stage
Part 2: Respondent-Based Methods
Chapter 3: The Qualitative Interview
Anna M. Ortiz
Chapter 4: Focus Groups
Jillian Kinzie
Part 3: Mixed Methods
Chapter 5: Participatory Action Research
Lindsey E. Malcom-Piqueux
Chapter 6: Mixed Methods Research
Dorian L. McCoy
Part 4: Using Original and Pre-Existing Data and Resources
Chapter 7: Visual Methods in Higher Education
Amy Scott Metcalfe
Chapter 8: Document Analysis, Oral History and Historical Methods
Michelle Dionne Thompson
Chapter 9: Policy Analysis Research
Teboho Moja
Chapter 10: Surveys
Drew Allen
Part 5: Large Data Set Analysis
Chapter 11: Secondary Data Analysis
Diane Cardenas Elliott
Chapter 12: Large National Data Sets
Ryan Wells
Part 6: Communicating Your Results - Adding to the Knowledge of the Field
Chapter 13: Reporting Results and Conclusion
Frances K. Stage and Kathleen Manning
Contributor Biographies
