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FERTILE OBSESSION: Validity After Poststructuralism
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Tomlinson as mentioned in this paper argued that post-modernism involves the development of new rhetorics of science, new stories of knowledge "after truth" (after truth) and that all we can do is invent.Abstract:
[P]ost-modernism involves the development of new rhetorics of science, new stories of knowledge ‘after truth’‥. The postmodern world is without guarantees, without ‘method’‥. All we can do is invent. We must construct and exemplify the rhetorics of the future … through … endless stories. Like this one. Tomlinson (1989), pp.44,57.read more
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Paradigmatic Controversies, Contradictions, and Emerging Confluences.
Egon G. Guba,Yvonna S. Lincoln +1 more
TL;DR: The contention among various research paradigms for legitimacy and intellectual and p;uadigmatic hegemony was discussed in the first edition of the Handbook of Qualitative Research by Guba and Lincoln as mentioned in this paper.
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Determining Validity in Qualitative Inquiry
John W. Creswell,Dana L. Miller +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the importance of good qualitative data to improve Eduational practice, and propose a method to determine validity in qualitative inquiry in the context of theory into practice.
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Toward a Definition of Mixed Methods Research
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how the field of mixed methods currently is being defined and discussed the criteria of demarcation in mixed methods research, and concluded that mixed methods are one of the three major research paradigms.
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Qualitative Data Analysis
TL;DR: Qualitative data is extremely varied in nature and can include everything from field research where one lives in another context or culture for a period of time to photographs that illustrate some aspect of the phenomenon.
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Qualitative Quality: Eight “Big-Tent” Criteria for Excellent Qualitative Research
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model for quality in qualitative research that is uniquely expansive, yet flexible, in that it makes distinc- tions among qualitative research's means (methods and practices) and its ends.
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Naturalistic inquiry: Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1985, 416 pp., $25.00 (Cloth)
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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977
Michel Foucault,Colin Gordon +1 more
TL;DR: The Eye of Power: A Discussion with Maoists as mentioned in this paper discusses the politics of health in the Eighteenth Century, the history of sexuality, and the Confession of the Flesh.
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Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
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Construct validity in psychological tests.
Lee J. Cronbach,Paul E. Meehl +1 more
TL;DR: The present interpretation of construct validity is not "official" and deals with some areas where the Committee would probably not be unanimous, but the present writers are solely responsible for this attempt to explain the concept and elaborate its implications.
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Fourth Generation Evaluation
Egon G. Guba,Yvonna S. Lincoln +1 more
TL;DR: The coming of age of evaluation What is fourth generation evaluation? Why should we choose to practice it? What Is this Constructivist Paradigm Anyway? Ethics and Politics The Twin Failures of Positivist Science Constructions and Reconstructions of Realities Paradigms and Methodologies The Methodology of Fourth Generation Evaluations Judging the Quality of 4G Evaluation Putting It All Together so that It Spells E-V-A-L-U-A -T-I-O-N