Reason & rigor : how conceptual frameworks guide research
by
Ravitch, Sharon M.
Title
:
Reason & rigor : how conceptual frameworks guide research
Author
:
Ravitch, Sharon M.
ISBN
:
9781412981255
Personal Author
:
Ravitch, Sharon M.
Publication Information
:
Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c2012.
Physical Description
:
xxi, 174 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
:
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Why Conceptual Frameworks? -- Chapter 3. Excavating Questions: Conceptual Frameworks and Research Design -- Chapter 4. The Role of the Conceptual Framework in Data Collection and Fieldwork -- Chapter 5. Conceptual Frameworks and the Analysis of Data -- Chapter 6. Expanding the Conversation, Extending the Argument: The Role of Conceptual Frameworks in Presenting, Explaining, and Contextualizing Findings -- Chapter 7. The Conceptual Framework as Guide and Ballast.
Abstract
:
"Designed for novice as well as more experienced researchers embarking on a thesis or dissertation, as well as those advising them, this book presents conceptual frameworks as a mechanism for aligning literature review, research design, and methodology. Defined as an argument about why the topic of a study matters, and why the methods proposed to study it are appropriate and rigorous, the book explores the conceptual framework as both a process and a framework that helps to direct and ground researchers as they work through common research challenges."--pub. desc.
Subject Term
:
Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology.
Research -- Methodology.
Qualitative research.
Added Author
:
Riggan, Matthew.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
|---|
| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168025586559 | 001.42 R256R 2012 | 1 |