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HW Thesis Analysis
HW Thesis Analysis
HW Thesis Analysis
Objective:
Appraise a qualitative research through answering a questionnaire individually.
Instructions: Answer the questions, providing specific information grounded on
the thesis of phenomenological approach, which it if found in the platform.
I. Introduction
2. What are the two stakeholders that were chosen by the researcher as part of
the study sample?
Students and university presidents.
3. List the six shared predicaments that the global community has inherited?
Warring conflicts
Human rights violations
Poverty
Environmental degradation
Overpopulation
Implications with public health and economic instability.
4. Briefly state what is the purpose of the students and the university
presidents in higher education.
Students are the direct consumers of this educational effort and university
presidents are charged with leading the success
9. Read through the statement of problem and state whether or not, the
researcher states as a problematic situation the existence of previous
studies on the university presidency.
Students think about their professors and their schools, research relating
specifically to how they make meaning of the university presidency does not
exist.
12. What does Bassey (2002) suggest about the purpose of research?
He suggests “the purpose of research is trying to make a claim to
knowledge, or wisdom, based on systematic, creative and critical enquiry”
14. Establish the two requirements that (Creswell 2007) states about the
research questions.
- Central study questions are presented within the parameter of a chosen
research tradition followed by a minimal number of subsequent queries
designed to further align the focus of the study.
- The phrasing of questions is purposefully open-ended utilizing
exploratory verbs and beginning with words such as “what” or “how”.
15. What are the two questions that drive the investigation of this dissertation?
- How do students experience and understand the university
presidency?
- How does this experience and understanding of the university
presidency inform or shape the college experience for students?
V. Conceptual Framework
10. In page 16, the researcher explains the process she followed to analyze
the data, utilizing Moustakas (1994) method. Write the process in a
checklist form, the first two are done for you.
a. Bracketing or focusing the researchable interest, ensured my study
design remained methodically connected to the empirical questions.
b. I compiled the stories associated with the lived personal experience
of the participants.
c. Assign equal value to each developing segment of meaning.
d. These ideas defined the essence of the phenomenon by leading me
to focus on my participant’s described experiences through the
consciousness rooted in their self-awareness.
e. Continued analysis of the data rich material occurred through coding
where issue related cluster developments transformed into
experiential themes.
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14. Write the process she utilized to organize the data collected. The first
one is done for you.
a. Field notes and memoing assisted with organization and helped
navigate developing themes.
b. Bracketing and phenomenological reduction ensured my
preconceived judgments were suspended to focus in on the
experiences of the student respondents
c. Two separate phases of coding helped me negotiate data analysis.
d. Delineating the units of meaning first enabled me to begin to
condense verbal and nonverbal communications as I strove to
discover the essence of meaning in the data.
e. Began to extract general and unique ideas from the interviews which
were later condensed into themes.
4. All studies, qualitative or quantitative must fulfill with the evaluation criteria
set by the investigation community, such as validity, credibility,
accountability, reliability, etc. In this section the researcher proves the
authenticity of her dissertation through the support of several entities,
checklist them orderly.
-Discussions and resulting commentary from my advisor
- Dissertation committee members
-Fellow PhD. Students and colleagues in higher education were noted and
compiled for further reflection.
5. In page 19, the researcher states that to strive toward critical thinking and
manage the influence of bias, she embraced regular dialogues with:
6. What is the goal of the study and state the reasons of the design?
The goal is to provide a rich description of how students experience and
understand the university presidency.
9. Observe carefully Figure 2 in page 94 and then list the variables the
researcher considered in the participants demographics.
a. Age
b. Sex
c. Ratial/ Ethnic Category
d. Academic Class Status
e. Campus Activity/Organization Combined Involvement
X. Participants Narrative
12. Fill in the spaces with the information required in each subtitle:
a. Limitation No. 1: As the interactivity between students and presidents
impacts the ever-evolving relationship, not having the presidents’
perspective.
A. List the four areas the researcher suggests for further research
considerations:
(a) The interactivity between students and presidents through social
media
(b) Expanding the target population to include a more diverse student
demographic and differing types of organizations
(c) Studying how involved students influence the general student
population and serve as a key communication conduit for presidents to
reach a larger population
(d) Conversely, investigating how university presidents experience and
understand their students.
Recommendation:
- Future studies explore the interactivity between students and
presidents through social media.
- Further research expand the target population to include the
noninvolved student perspective, more diverse student
demographics, and differing types of universities.