Qualitative research: “The validity of game-based assessment of persistence” (2013) Ventura.M, Shute.V, Florida state university, USA. Published in the journal of Computer in human behavior.
1.Which qualitative method or methods are used in the paper? Which are the benefits and limitations of using these methods?
The research paper selected for this week I thought was qualitative, but in the end it used both qualitative and quantitative methods. But since I have no more time to change to another paper I will use the one I chose and try to answer the questions as good as I can. So this research paper used observation of their collected data. They where looking at if persistence in game play was valid. They collected game-play data and analysed it to see if persistence had to do with how difficult a specific problem in the game was to solve. The benefits of observing and analysing data is that you can get more accurate data and with this small focus group it would be easier to find specific details in the study. The limitations are though that you cannot get the children's point of view of the game and see why they where persistent.
2. What did you learn about qualitative methods from reading the paper?
Not more than I already knew, and because the paper was not really good for this weeks theme it was hard to get any more knowledge about qualitative methods.
3. Which are the main methodological problems of the study? How could the use of qualitative method or methods have been improved?
They could have observed the children more thoroughly, by sitting beside them and see if they quit right away if a problem was to difficult to solve and they could have observed their reaction. They could also have seen if solving problems made the persistence of a particularly hard problem be longer. They could also have been able to analyse the kids facial expression and body language, to se if that made an impact on their persistence.
Case study research: “Structuring the discourse on social networks for learning: Case studies on blogs and microblogs” (2013) Marques. M.A, Krejci.R, Siqueria. S, Pimentel.M, Braz.H.M, Federal university of the state of Rio the janeiro. Published in Computers in human behaviour journal.
Briefly explain to a first year student what a case study is.
A case study, is research that is specific and special. This means that the authors are trying to study something that has never been studied before or something that is a special case of another research study. There is a lot of argument on what a case study is, I have during this week read a lot of different opinions on what it is and what it is not. But I think that Eisenhardt has the best explanation for it, and in the first sentence I tried to explain my point of view of what a Case study is.
2. Use the “Process of Building Theory from a Case Study Research” (Eisenhardt. summarised in Table 1) to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of your selected paper.
The case study I read was actually very nicely done. It was organised and they knew exactly what their study was going to be about. They used both Qualitative and Quantitative research methods to get a better understanding of their study. They studied the learning possibility when using blogs or microblogs. They let student use the blogs and so observed and made interviews with the students to get their point of view on the use of these blogs as a learning tool. Similar research has been done before, but mostly on a technical point and not on social network or on blogs. The study could have contained more participants to get more accurate data, and to get a more understanding on the human behavior.
References:
Marques. M.A, Krejci.R, Siqueria. S, Pimentel.M, Braz.H.M, “Structuring the discourse on social networks for learning: Case studies on blogs and microblogs” (2013) Federal university of the state of Rio the janeiro. Published in Computers in human behavior journal.
Ventura.M, Shute.V, “The validity of game-based assessment of persistence” (2013) Florida state university, USA. Published in the journal of Computer in human behavior.
Eisenhardt M.K “Building Theories from Case Study Research” (1989) Standford University, USA.
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