Which of the following research designs is the most appropriate for depicting lived experiential realities?
Phenomenological designs
Phenomenology directly investigates the meaning and structure of lived experience. Narrative research centres on stories over time, grounded theory on developing an explanatory theory, and case study on an in-depth bounded case. Phenomenological traditions differ in their treatment of interpretation and bracketing; none guarantees complete elimination of researcher influence.
Important Questions from Research Designs - Teaching
Which of the following best illustrates an example of a mixed-methods research study?
An ethnographer studies participants’ experiences and feelings by collecting pre-existing diaries, letters, photographs and other objects, without interviewing their creators during collection. Which data-collection strategy is this?
What is the distinctive feature of case study research?
Which research design centres on interpreting individuals’ life stories and how they organise experiences over time, using autobiographies and personal conversations as data?
Which from the following are parts of the purpose of quantitative research?
A. Understanding of cultural traditions
B. Discovery of relationships among variables
C. Interpretation of human relationships
D. Confirmation of hypotheses
E. Generalization of results to other situations
