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THE COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS OF ETHNOGRAPHIC DATA IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Author(s) -
Flenberg Stephen E.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1977.8.2.05x1395q
Subject(s) - casual , variables , ethnography , data collection , variable (mathematics) , educational research , sociology , qualitative research , domain (mathematical analysis) , research methodology , mathematics education , computer science , psychology , social science , mathematics , machine learning , anthropology , political science , population , law , mathematical analysis , demography
Educational research has long attended to quantifying dependent variables as a way of describing learning outcomes. It is in the domain of the independent variable, or the interactions and characteristics of the classroom and the teaching‐learning participants as a casual factor, that we have been weakest. Techniques are emerging which can help to identify independent variables. What are some of these, and how can they be applied to gathering the qualitative data important to the identifications of such variables?