Faculty who teach quantitative courses in public affairs often find themselves perplexed by their students' mathematical difficulties: Algebra and graphs seem obstacles for these students, rather than useful tools. How is it, faculty wonder, that students who have taken all the right courses in thei
Overview of Student Affairs Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative
โ Scribed by Emily J. Perl; Denise F. Noldon
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Weight
- 56 KB
- Volume
- 2000
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-0579
- DOI
- 10.1002/ir.10803
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โฆ Synopsis
Abstract
This chapter provides a review of the strengths and weaknesses of quantitative and qualitative research and argues for the value of using the paradigms complementarily.
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