HLST 4200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Systematic Review, Design Issues, Participant Observation
11 Dec 2018
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Lecture 2: introduction to fixed and flexible designs. Chapter 3: developing your ideas: the literature" is what is already known, and written down, relevant to your research project. A locating, and analyzing traditional documents containing information related to the research problem. Involves systematically literature review identifying, articles, abstracts, reviews, monographs, dissertations, books, other research reports, and electronic media" (gay & airasian, 2003, p. 16). Note, however, that systematic review has recently gained a more specific meaning in the context of evidence based approaches and the synthesis of research finding. There are ways of focusing a literature review other than providing a traditional narrative review of the research evidence on a topic (see chapter 5). These include integrative reviews, theoretical reviews, methodological reviews and historical reviews. Kennedy (2007) groups these together as conceptual reviews", suggesting that they share an interest in gaining new insights into an issue or research topic.
