I am doing a research in Education to build a model using Eistenhardt's method. I would like to know any one has done a research in education, using the same method.
Mollykutty,
I designed a breast carcinoma intervention to increase the utilization of preventive services in young women and created a model to educate young women about the disease. The majority of my questions were quantitative (21) but i did include in the course evaluation of a qualitative set of questions to gather actual input from the participants. This enabled me to garner more insight into the needs of young women related to preventive services, such as the need for peer-to-peer mentoring, which can be used to define the model for young women. I then designed a model from the findings of the research study, see my poster presentation on this site. This is a good question because we often do not use qualitative methodology or value it as high as the quantitative methods due to rate of error and interpretation. However, ethnography and grounded theory have been useful in health education refer to the attached article.
Michele
http://www.healio.com/nursing/journals/jne/2011-8-50-8/%7B8ff6a762-e3ea-40cd-880c-bf95310d3276%7D/making-a-case-for-the-case-study-method
Hello Michele,
Thank you very much for your answer. It was helpful to me to know that you made a model complementing quantitative data with qualitative. I have started with qualitative and try to complement with quantitative.
Thanks and best wishes.
Mollykutty
Regarding grounded theory in educational research i would like to share my experience. Actually in grounded theory we are trying to discover the theory from data (Glaser and Strauss1967:1). As the method tells, after some data collection and reflection in relation to a general issue of concern, the researcher generates ‘categories’ which fit the data.
Further research is undertaken until the categories are ‘saturated’, that is, the
researcher feels assured about their meaning and importance.
So in my research to find the implementation of the education vision of our founder in the schools run by our congregation; about which no study has done so far. So I clarified the idea from without any theory or hypothesis i started the data collection, then simultaneous analysis, then moved to next school and so on. I am in the process, and so i cannot say more my experience now. Any way it is interesting and enlightening.
I would recomend Robert Thornberg research on peer relations and bullying done in schools with grounded theory.
N.
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