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Interdisciplinarity and Convergence: A Required Research Design Class

Interdisciplinarity and Convergence: A Required Research Design Class. The Future of iSchool Doctoral Education May 29, 2009, University of Maryland. Lori Kendall. Course Components. A. Logic of inquiry Epistemology, style of inquiry, inductive vs. deductive logics, philosophy

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Interdisciplinarity and Convergence: A Required Research Design Class

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  1. Interdisciplinarity and Convergence: A Required Research Design Class The Future of iSchool Doctoral Education May 29, 2009, University of Maryland Lori Kendall

  2. Course Components A. Logic of inquiry Epistemology, style of inquiry, inductive vs. deductive logics, philosophy Includes two hands-on exercises: 1. conducting a qualitative interview, transcribing it, and doing initial coding; and 2. Creating a hypothesis, designing a questionnaire (group). B. Research Design Issues Figuring out project boundaries, sampling, ethics, writing a research proposal (the final project) C. That Brief Survey of Methods (now confined to two weeks) Includes interviewing a faculty member about their research strategies and processes

  3. Wallace’s Wheel of Science Theories Logical Deduction Creative Leaps Sensitizing Concepts Hypothesis Empirical Generalizations Statistical or Verbal Summarization Measurement Observations From Adler and Clark, How It’s Done, Wadsworth 2003, adapted from Walter Wallace The Logic of Science in Sociology, Aldine 1971.

  4. Renear, Allen, et al. 2003. “An XML document corresponds to which FRBR Group 1 entity?” Extreme Markup Witten, I. and Frank, E. 2005. “Chapter 1: What’s it all about?,” from Data Mining. Smith, Linda. 1981. “Citation Analysis.” Library Trends Hoppman, Talke Klara. 2009. “Examining the ‘point of frustration’. The think-aloud method applied to online search tasks.” Quantity and Quality White, Marilyn and Emily Marsh. 2006. “Content analysis: a flexible methodology,” Library Trends Haythornthwaite, Caroline. 1996. “Social Network Analysis” Library & Information Science Research Palmer, Carole, Melissa Cragin, and Timothy Hogan. 2004. “Information at the intersections of discovery: Case studies in neuroscience,” ASIS&T Proceedings Kendall, Lori. 2008. “James Bond, Peter Pan, and A Sticky Night of Love: Irony and masculinities in amateur animated videos,” The Journal of Men’s Studies McDowell, Kate. 2008. “Toward a History of Children as Readers, 1890-1930,” Book History Becker, Howard. 2001. “The epistemology of qualitative research,” from Contemporary Field Research K'Meyer, Tracy E. "'It's Not Just Common Sense': A Blueprint for Teaching Oral History." The Oral History Review

  5. What It Still Needs… More and better readings about epistemology and philosophy I bit more decentering of social science Better connections between the different components of the class (A student suggestion: each student starts with a project idea and applies all exercises to that project.)

  6. Thanks!I’d love to hear your thoughtsand questions. And if you have readings to suggest,please send them to me at:loriken@illinois.edu

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