This document discusses research paradigms and provides examples of different types of research paradigms. It begins by defining what a research paradigm is - the underlying beliefs, assumptions, and methodologies that guide research. It then outlines four main research paradigms: positivism/quantitative, interpretivist/qualitative, critical, and pragmatic. For each paradigm, it describes the ontology (view of reality), epistemology (relationship between the researcher and what is being researched), and methodology. It provides examples of research questions and studies for each paradigm. The document discusses the strengths and limitations of different paradigms and whether they meet the needs of practicing educators.
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2. Research Paradigm
• Every research design is guided by a set of
unerlying beliefs about how to think about a
problem, what research questions to ask and
hope to find the the answers.
• This set of beliefs and practices is called the
research paradigm
3. Example
• An ODL institution has high drop out rates.
• They want to conduct research to reduce this
problem?
– What questions do they?
– Who are the subjects?
– How do they analyze the data?
– What do they do with the results?
4. Paradigm
• “a philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific
school or discipline within which theories, laws, and
generalizations and the experiments performed in
support of them are formulated” Merriam Webster
Dictionary, 2007)
• “the set of common beliefs and agreements shared
between scientists about how problems should be
understood and addressed” (Kuhn, 1962)
• a world view, a way of ordering and simplifying the
perceptual world's stunning complexity by making
certain fundamental assumptions about the nature of
the universe, of the individual, and of society.
7. Ontology is what exists and is a view
on the nature of reality.
•Are you a realist ? You see reality as something 'out there', as a
law of nature just waiting to be found ?
•Are you a critical realist? You know things exist 'out there' but as
human beings our own presence as researchers influences what we
are trying to measure.
•Or, are you a relativist ? You believe that knowledge is a social
reality, value-laden and it only comes to light through individual
interpretation?
http://www.erm.ecs.soton.ac.uk/theme2/what_is_your_paradigm.html
8. Epistemology is our perceived relationship with the knowledge
we are un/dis/covering.
Are we part of that knowledge or are we external to it?
What is the nature of relationship exists between the
inquirer and the inquired? How do we know?
Your view will frame your interaction with what you are
researching and will depend on your ontological view.
Do “you see knowledge governed by the laws of nature or
subjective if you see knowledge as something interpreted
by individuals. ”
http://www.erm.ecs.soton.ac.uk/theme2/what_is_your_paradigm.html
9. Methodology refers to how you go about finding out
knowledge and carrying out your research.
It is your strategic approach, rather than your
techniques and data analysis . Some examples
of such methods are:
the scientific method (quantitative method),
ethnographic approach, case study approach, (both
using qualitative methods),
ideological framework (e.g. an interpretation from
Marxist, Feminist viewpoint),
dialectic approach (e.g. compare and contrast
different points of view or constructs, including your
own).
10. • Ontology PLUS
• Epistemology PLUS
• Methodology = Research Paradigm
11. Research Paradigms
Positivism - Quantitative ~ discovery of the
laws that govern behavior
Constructivist - Qualitative ~
understandings from an insider perspective
Critical - Postmodern ~ Investigate and
expose the power relationships
Pragmatic - interventions, interactions and
their effect in multiple contexts
12. Paradigm 1
Positivism - Quantitative Research
• Ontology: There is an objective reality
and we can understand it and it through
the laws by which it is governed.
• Epistemology: employs a scientific
discourse derived from the epistemologies
of positivism and realism.
• Method: Experimental, Deduction,
Correlation
13. • “those who are seeking the strict way of
truth should not trouble themselves about
any object concerning which they cannot
have a certainty equal to arithmetic or
geometrical demonstration”
• Inordinate support and faith in randomized
controlled studies
(Rene Descartes)
14. Typical Positivist Research Question:
• What?
• How much?
• Relationship between?
• What causes this effect?
• Best answered with numerical precision
• Often formulated as hypotheses
15. • Reliability: Same results different times,
different researchers
• Validity: results accurately measure and
reliably answer research questions.
• “Without reliability, there is no validity.”
• Can you think of a positivist measurement
that is reliable, but not valid?
16. Examples Positivist 1 –
Community of Inquiry- Content Analysis
• Garrison, Anderson, Archer 1997-2003
– http://communitiesofinquiry.com - 9 papers reviewing results
focusing on reliable, quantitative analysis
– Identified ways to measure teaching, social and cognitive
‘presence’
– Most reliable methods are beyond current time constraints of busy
teachers
– Questions of validity
– Serves as basic research as grounding for AI methods and major
survey work.
– Serves as qualitative heuristic for teachers and course designers
17. Positivist 2 – Meta-Analysis
• Aggregates many effect sizes creating large N’s &
more powerful results.
• Ungerleider and Burns (2003)
• Systematic review of effectiveness and efficiency of
Online education versus Face to face?
• The type of interventions studied were
extraordinary diverse –only criteria was a
comparison group
• “Only 10 of the 25 studies included in the in-
depth review were not seriously flawed, a
sobering statistic given the constraints that went
into selecting them for the review.”
19. Is DE Better than Classroom Instruction?
Project 1: 2000 – 2004
• Question: How does distance education compare
to classroom instruction? (inclusive dates 1985-
2002)
• Total number of effect sizes: k = 232
• Measures: Achievement, Attitudes and Retention
(opposite of drop-out)
• Divided into Asynchronous and Synchronous DE
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Bernard, R. M., Abrami, P. C., Lou, Y. Borokhovski, E., Wade, A., Wozney, L.,
Wallet, P.A., Fiset, M., & Huang, B. (2004). How does distance education
compare to classroom instruction? A meta-analysis of the empirical literature.
Review of Educational Research, 74(3), 379-439.
21. Quantitative Research Summary
• Can be useful especially when fine tuning well
established practice
• Provides incremental gains in knowledge, not
revolutionary ones
• The need to “control” context often makes results of
little value to practicing professionals
• In times of rapid change too early quantitative
testing may mask beneficial positive capacity
• Will we ever be able to afford blind reviewed,
random assignment studies?
22. Paradigm 2
Interpretivist or Qualitative Paradigm
• Many different varieties
• Generally answer the question ‘why’ rather
then ‘what’, ‘when’ or ‘how much’?
• Presents special challenges in distributed
contexts due to distance between participants
and researchers
• Currently most common type of DE research
23. Interpretivist Paradigm
• Ontology: World and knowledge created by
social and contextual understanding.
• Epistemology: How do we come to
understand a unique person’s worldview
• Methodology: Qualitative methods –
narrative, interviews, observations,
ethnography, case study, phenomenology etc.
25. Typical Interpretive Research Question
• Why?
• How does subject understand?
• What is their “lived experience”?
• What meaning does the artifact or
intervention have?
26.
27. Qualitative Example
Results
“It was broadly welcomed by nursing staff as long as it
supplemented rather than substituted their role in traditional
patient care. GPs held mixed views; some gave a cautious welcome
but most saw telehealth as increasing their work burden and
potentially undermining their professional autonomy.”
MacNeill, V., Sanders, C., Fitzpatrick, R., Hendy, J., Barlow, J., Knapp,
M., ... & Newman, S. P. (2014). Experiences of front-line
health professionals in the delivery of telehealth: a
qualitative study. Br J Gen Pract, 64(624), e401-e407.
28. Qualitative example 2
• Mann, S. (2003) A personal inquiry into an experience of
adult learning on-line. Instructional Science 31
• Conclusions:
– The need to facilitate the presentation of learner and teacher identities
in such a way that takes account of the loss of the normal channel
– The need to make explicit the development of operating norms and
conventions
– reduced communicative media there is the potential for greater
misunderstanding
– The need to consider ways in which the developing learning community
can be open to the other of uncertainty, ambiguity and difference
29. 3rd Paradigm
Critical Research
• Asks who gains in power?
• How can this injustice be rectified?
• Can the exploited be helped to understand the oppression that
undermines them?
• Who benefits from or exploits the current situation?
30. Critical Research Paradigm
• Ontology: Reality exists and has been created by directed
social bias.
• Epistemology: Understand oppressed view by uncovering the
“contradictory conditions of action which are hidden or
distorted by everyday understanding” (Comstock) and work
to help change social conditions
• Methodology: Critical analysis, historic review, participate in
programs of action
31. Sample Critical Research Questions
• Why does Facebook own all the content that we supply?
• Does the power of the net further marginalize the non-
connected?
• Who benefits from voluntary disclosure?
• Why did the One Laptop Per Child fail?
• Does learning analytics exploit student vulnerabilities and
right to privacy?
• Are MOOCs really free?
• Who owns and for what use are learning analytics?
• Does Online education only expose learners to more
educational failure?
32. Online research has two audiences:
1. other researchers
2. ODE Practitioners
Do Positivist, Interpretive or Critical
Research Meet the Real Needs of
Practicing Educators?
33. Paradigm #4
Pragmatism
• “To a pragmatist, the mandate of science
is not to find truth or reality, the
existence of which are perpetually in
dispute, but to facilitate human problem-
solving” (Powell, 2001, p. 884).
34. 4. Pragmatic Paradigm
• Developed from frustration of the lack of impact of
educational research in educational systems.
• Key features:
– An intervention
– Empirical research in a natural context
– Partnership between researchers and practitioners
– Development of theory and ‘design principles”
35. Pragmatic Paradigm
• Ontology: Reality is the practical effects of
ideas.
• Epistemology: Any way of thinking/doing that
leads to pragmatic solutions is useful.
• Methodology: Mixed Methods, design-based
research, action research
36. Typical Pragmatic
Research Question
• What can be done to increase literacy of adult learners?
• Does ODL increase student satisfaction and completion rates?
• Will blog activities increase student satisfaction and learning
outcomes in my course?
• What incentives are effective for encouraging teachers to use
social media in their teaching?
37. 4th Pragmatic Paradigm Methodologies
• Action Research
• Case studies
• Grounded Theory Research
38. Design-Based Research Studies
– iterative,
– process focused,
– interventionist,
– collaborative,
– multileveled,
– utility oriented,
– theory driven and generative
• (Shavelson et al, 2003)
39. • Iterative because
• ‘Innovation is not restricted to the prior design of an
artifact, but continues as artifacts are implemented
and used”
• Implementations are “inevitably unfinished” (Stewart
and Williams (2005)
• intertwined goals of (1) designing learning
environments and (2) developing theories of learning
(DBRC, 2003)
40.
41. Example Voice Feedback
• Added voice comment and asynchronous
communication to exam and essay feedback.
• Added 2 types of feedback (Google and
Adobe) to 167 students
• Qualitative and quantitative survey questions
Keane, K., McCrea, D., & Russell, M. (2019).
Personalizing Feedback Using Voice Comments.
Open Praxis, 10(4), 309-324.
42. Pragmatic Research Example Voice
Feedback
Keane, K., McCrea, D., & Russell, M. (2019).
Personalizing Feedback Using Voice Comments.
Open Praxis, 10(4), 309-324.
43. Paradigm Ontology Epistemology Question Method
Positivism Hidden rules
govern teaching
and learning
process
Focus on reliable
and valid tools
to undercover
rules
What works? Quantitative
Interpretive/con
structivist
Reality is
created by
individuals in
groups
Discover the
underlying
meaning of
events and
activities
Why do you act
this way?
Qualitative
Critical Society is rife
with inequalities
and injustice
Helping uncover
injustice and
empowering
citizens
How can I
change this
situation?
Ideological
review,
Civil actions
Pragmatic Truth is what is
useful
The best method
is one that
solves problems
Will this
intervention
improve
learning?
Mixed Methods,
Design-Based
Summary
44. Summary
• All four research paradigms offer opportunity to guide
research
• each offers advantage and challenges
• Choice for research based on:
– Personal views
– Research questions
– Access, support and resources
– Supervisor(s) attitudes!
• There is no single, “best way” to do research
• Arguing paradigm perspectives is not productive
46. Your Task
• Develop a research proposal (in groups of 6):
• Select a problem that is challenging your online programs.
• Using one of the four research paradigms, design a
research program that is consistent with the paradigm and
answers the research questions developed:
1. Describe what research paradigm your proposal uses
2. Describe why you choose this paradigm and the relevance
of your problem
3. Develop one to three research questions
4. What is the theoretical basis for your project?
5. Overview the data collection means
47. Example – High Drop Our Rates in ODL
• Positivist: Survey and compare graduates
versus dropouts
• Interpretive: Interview dropouts to find
personal reasons for dropout.
• Critical: uncover factors related to gender,
class or race that are influencing dropout and
design ways to reduce these.
• Pragmatic: Design and test an intervention
designed to increase completion rates