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Download full textYoong, Suan – 1986
Egon G. Guba and Yvonna S. Lincoln were among the first to develop a set of extensive criteria for establishing naturalistic inquiry as a disciplined research methodology. The naturalistic paradigm--also called post-positivist, ethnographic, phenomenological, and qualitative--has gained acceptance as a legitimate alternative to the previously…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Evaluation Methods, Inquiry
Bhola, H. S. – 1994
An expanded vision of evaluation is offered that accommodates the use of both descriptive information and evaluative information, and which connects evaluation in the naturalistic paradigm with evaluation in the rationalistic paradigm for making informed decisions within programs of education and development. The model of "Information Development…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cooperation, Culture, Decision Making
