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Smith, Nick L.; Hauer, Diane M. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1990
Ten evaluation models are examined in terms of their applicability to investigative, emergent design programs: Stake's portrayal, Wolf's adversary, Patton's utilization, Guba's investigative journalism, Scriven's goal-free, Scriven's modus operandi, Eisner's connoisseurial, Stufflebeam's CIPP, Tyler's objective based, and Levin's cost…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Goodness of Fit, Investigations
Brody, Philip J. – 1984
Instructional technologists have traditionally used the scientific or rationalistic paradigm to study the instructional potential of pictures. Naturalistic and rationalistic inquiry differ in their views of reality and truth, the relationship between the investigator and the subject, the goals of inquiry, and the role of values in inquiry.…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Illustrations, Instructional Materials, Interviews
Lincoln, Yvonna S. – 1988
All social science serves some agenda: social science research is a value-bound, value-determined, context-situated, and ideologically loaded enterprise. Each researcher makes choices in the following areas, whether tacitly, implicitly, or deliberately: (1) a paradigm choice, either conventional (rationalistic) or emerging (naturalistic); (2) the…
Descriptors: Bias, Ideology, Models, Naturalistic Observation
Jaquette, Daniel S. – 1979
This study employs a time-series analysis of naturalistic developmental functioning to describe characteristics of transition in social development. A special education classroom of eight preadolescents, ages 11 and 12, provided subjects for this study. Transitional patterns in social cognitive development were studied in children's…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Group Discussion
Lincoln, Yvonna S. – 1988
The revolution in hard sciences is explored, from the Cartesian-Newtonian worldview to the Heisenbergian universe, and consideration is given to whether the conventional, Cartesian model is a serviceable one for research in the social/applied sciences. Five axioms comprising the existing paradigm of logical positivism are outlined (reality,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Inquiry
Brooks, Douglas M. – 1977
Fifteen teachers from grades one through twelve and sixty pupils were sampled using a contextual approach to the investigation of teachers' verbal and nonverbal behavior. Pupils were categorized as accepting, concerned, indifferent, or rejecting by their respective teachers, and the student-initiated question frame was selected as a suitable and…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers