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- Title: Without 1, Where would We Begin? Small Sample Research in Educational Settings.
- Author : Journal of Thought
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 182 KB
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Introduction I study preservice teachers and the ways they attempt to make sense of method course instruction (theory) and real classroom applications (practice). Given the complexity of completing this task my chosen sample size has always been quite small. Coming out of graduate school, I actually thought that what I learned about qualitative research made sense. I still do. However, after five years in academe it appears to me that some researchers still hold onto quantitative ideologies when critiquing qualitative research manuscripts. I have had two manuscripts turned down for publication not because my findings were in question, but because I used an N of one. The reviewers' comments all pointed out that because I used an N of one my findings were suspect. In other words, (quantitatively speaking) they were not valid, reliable, and generalizable.