Scientific and Qualitative Research

1. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH links the key concepts of: knowledge accumulation, theory and generalizability, standardization and systemization, trial and error, balance between innovation and conventionalism, evidence, warrants, claims, principles, quality standards and self-correction among practitioners

2. QUALITATIVE RESEARCH links key concepts of: philosophical and theoretical traditions, developments, interpretation and critique, ethnography, self-study, field notes, transcripts and interviews, artifacts, immersion, peer reviewQUALITATIVE RESEARCH links key concepts of: philosophical and theoretical traditions, developments, interpretation and critique, ethnography, self-study, field notes, transcripts and interviews, artifacts, immersion, peer review

3. USES BOTH SCIENTIFIC AND QUALITATIVE MECHANISMS: data=both evidence and clues, mandating scientific method into law; account of practice--descriptive work and prescriptive work; credibility; transferability; confirmability; (all support both premises), validity--- the boundary line for what is acceptable and what is not in research, triangulation