Where's my Template?
Location
1047
Format Type
Event
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
January 2018
End Date
January 2018
Abstract
I work at an institution that offers two Ed.D. programs in the College of Education. Our doctoral students are required to take three research courses: two in quantitative research and one in qualitative research. For many, their introduction to research is in their first quantitative research class. Their quantitative courses present research as being very structured and formulaic, with faculty providing templates and outlines for them to follow. When they arrive at my qualitative research class, they are encouraged to reflect on their roles in the research process and to find methods of data collection and analysis that fit both their research questions, their strengths, and their paradigms. They often ask me for a template for writing up their data collection, data analysis, and results sections of papers, assuming that qualitative research studies fit into identical structures. In this presentation, I reflect on ways to encourage doctoral students to embrace the messiness of qualitative research as they learn to become qualitative researchers.
Where's my Template?
1047
I work at an institution that offers two Ed.D. programs in the College of Education. Our doctoral students are required to take three research courses: two in quantitative research and one in qualitative research. For many, their introduction to research is in their first quantitative research class. Their quantitative courses present research as being very structured and formulaic, with faculty providing templates and outlines for them to follow. When they arrive at my qualitative research class, they are encouraged to reflect on their roles in the research process and to find methods of data collection and analysis that fit both their research questions, their strengths, and their paradigms. They often ask me for a template for writing up their data collection, data analysis, and results sections of papers, assuming that qualitative research studies fit into identical structures. In this presentation, I reflect on ways to encourage doctoral students to embrace the messiness of qualitative research as they learn to become qualitative researchers.
Comments
Since this is more reflective rather than a research study, I don't have the "usual" pieces in the abstract. Hope that's okay!