Trusting Practitioner Research Results

It has been effectively communicated over the years that all research is really a kind of argument for truth and meaning. The practitioner researcher wants to know if study findings are a good representation of what is happening concerning his practice. This idea is often referred to in terms of study validity, a concept associated with all three traditions of research introduced earlier: technical or instrumental, interpretive or critical, and practical. In the case of practical or practitioner research, many ideas about what makes studies valid are similar to those of most interpretive or critical approaches. The following is a set of questions the practitioner researcher should answer to make a convincing ...

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