Assignment A

1. Identify the particular qualitative research design in this article and give reasons for your response

2. Use the appropriate qualitative research design labels for each of the research scenarios presented. The labels are:

Phenomenology

Grounded Theory

Case Study

Ethnography

(a) Researchers assume that there is some commonality to the perceptions human beings have and in how they interpret an experience;

(b) Description of the cultural behavior of a group or individual

(c) Researchers start with an area of study and then allow what is relevant to that area to emerge

(d) Researcher is interested in studying a particular case only as a means to some larger goal he or she has in mind

(e) Researcher studies an individual's reaction to a particular experience or set of experiences

(f) Researchers doing this type of study use what is know as constant comparative method

(g) Often involves a study of just one classroom or program

Assignment B

For each of the following statements, indicate whether it isTRUEorFALSE.

(a) Action research is research conducted so that a decision can be reached about an issue of local concern at the local school level

(b) Administrators would rarely participate in action research

(c) Those involved in action research generally want to solve some day-to-day immediate problem

(d) On advantage of practical action research is that it is not limited in generalizability

(e) Action research requires mastery of at least one the major types of educational research

(f) An assumption underlying the action research is that those who work in schools want to engage, at least to some degree, in some form of systematic research

(g) An important aspect of action research is that the question or problem being investigated is one that is of interest to all parties involved

(h) It is not unusual in action research to find the use of more than one instrument

(i) The researcher is the key instrument in action research studies

(j) A key characteristic of action research is that the data collection methods are choosen by the stakeholders

(k) Action research can be done by teachers

(L) Unfortunately, action research cannot help teachers to identify problems and issues systematically