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Aug 30, 2018 · Every research study is “informed by a higher-level theory, even though researchers sometimes are not aware of these theories because they are embedded in their assumptions about the nature of reality and knowledge” (Glesne, 2011, p. 5).
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Nov 23, 2021 · This scathing criticism was repeated only a few years later, when Clifton F. Conrad (Citation 1989:, 205) warned his colleagues that higher education research was ‘preoccupied with data-gathering for narrow descriptive purposes, we have not emphasized understanding and interpretation that goes much beyond empirical generalization, narrow speculation, and low-level theory.’
- Julian Hamann, Anna Kosmützky
- 2021
Theory doesn’t happen in isolation from research; it can both inform the research process and develop from it. Theory that informs the research process is known as deductive reasoning. Deductive reasoning is a “theory-driven approach that typically concludes with [empirical] generalizations based on research findings” (Symbaluk & Bereska, 2022, p. 26).
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- Attributes of A Good Theory
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Theories are explanations of a natural or social behaviour, event, or phenomenon. More formally, a scientific theory is a system of constructs (concepts) and propositions (relationships between those constructs) that collectively presents a logical, systematic, and coherent explanation of a phenomenon of interest within some assumptions and boundar...
David Whetten (1989)suggests that there are four building blocks of a theory: constructs, propositions, logic, and boundary conditions/assumptions. Constructs capture the ‘what’ of theories (i.e., what concepts are important for explaining a phenomenon?), propositions capture the ‘how’ (i.e., how are these concepts related to each other?), logic re...
Theories are simplified and often partial explanations of complex social reality. As such, there can be good explanations or poor explanations, and consequently, there can be good theories or poor theories. How can we evaluate the ‘goodness’ of a given theory? Different criteria have been proposed by different researchers, the more important of whi...
How do researchers build theories? Steinfeld and Fulk (1990)recommend four such approaches. The first approach is to build theories inductively based on observed patterns of events or behaviours. Such an approach is often called ‘grounded theory building’, because the theory is grounded in empirical observations. This technique is heavily dependent...
In this section, we present brief overviews of a few illustrative theories from different social science disciplines. These theories explain different types of social behaviors, using a set of constructs, propositions, boundary conditions, assumptions, and underlying logic. Note that the following represents just a simplistic introduction to these ...
- Anol Bhattacherjee
- 2019
Nov 1, 2014 · It is therefore important to distinguish between theory at the substantive and paradigm level; (2) theory may be central or only peripheral to the target phenomena under study; (3) although theory is always present in qualitative research, it is not always clear when or under what circumstances it actually entered or left a study; and (4) theory in qualitative research has numerous functions.
- Caroline Bradbury-Jones, Julie Taylor, Oliver Herber
- 2014
Mar 11, 2022 · In this study, theory was used to cross boundaries between various fields of research (authentic assessment, work-integrated learning, constructive alignment), and we argue that CoP indeed offers fruitful tools for this as a well-known theory in higher education research (see Tight Citation 2015). Perhaps a less known yet deeper theory would have been less successful in creating discussion ...
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Aug 30, 2018 · 1. Abstract. The use of theory in science is an ongoing debate in the production of knowledge. Related to qualitative research methods, a. variety of approaches have been set forth in the ...
