What types of methods do SoTL researchers use? Where can I find out more about these various methods?
A. SoTL researchers use a variety of methods. The method chosen should fit the research question being asked. Both quantitative methods and qualitative methods can be useful for investigating teaching/learning questions. Some examples of how these methods might be employed are offered below: One researcher might be interested in doing a survey that asks about students’ attitudes and feelings toward working in classroom groups, and analyzes those responses using statistics (quantitative methods).Another researcher might be interested in finding out how international students feel about working in groups, and might feel that a focus group discussion (rather than a survey) would be a better venue for eliciting responses from this group. The focus group discussions could be videotaped, transcribed, and content analyzed (interaction coded into preset categories), or they could be more qualitatively analyzed by looking at themes that run through the interaction. Another researcher (conductin
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