long-term involvement” (Maxwell, 2005, p. 110) and can collect data that will “intensive, “rich” allow me to see the larger picture of what is happening both in terms of individual participants and in terms of the context of the site itself (Maxwell, 2005). I should be able to generalize the setting and group of participants studied; Maxwell (2005) refers to this as within internal While I do not plan to write findings with outside of generalizability. external generalizability the site I study, I do hope that other researchers might start similar projects and use the findings from my study to inspire and shape their own studies of other settings, using a variety of methodological approaches.
“intensive, long-term involvement” (Maxwell, 2005, p. 110) and can collect “rich” data that will allow me to see the larger picture of what is happening both in terms of individual participants and in terms of the context of the site itself (Maxwell, 2005). I should be able to generalize within the setting and group of participants studied; Maxwell (2005) refers to this as internal generalizability. While I do not plan to write findings with external generalizability outside of the site I study, I do hope that other researchers might start similar projects and use the findings from my study to inspire and shape their own studies of other settings, using a variety of methodological approaches.
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