1. Knowledge claim is how and what they will learn during their inquiry.
2. Descriptors in this mind map are taken from: Cresswell, J, W. Research design: Qualitative, Quantitative and mixed method approaches. Sage Publications. California
3. RESEARCH PROBLEM IS AN ISSUE OR CONCERN THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED
4. RESEARCHER'S PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WILL ALSO DETERMINE THE TYPE OF METHOD USED
5. RESEARCHES ARE SENSITIVE TO AUDIENCES WHO THEY ARE REPORTING TO.
6. QUANTITATIVE FRAMEWORK
   1. longest available example of framework
   2. KNOWLEDGE CLAIMS
      1. Post positivism
         1. Cannot be "positive" about our claims of knowledge when studying the behaviour and actions of humans
         2. Causes probably determine effects or outcomes
         3. Developing numeric measures of observations and studying the behaviour of individuals become paramount for postpositivists
            1. researcher collects information on instruments based on measures completed by the participants or by the observations recorded by the researcher
      2. Also known as the scientific method
         1. accepted approach to research
            1. begin with a theory and test of a theory
            2. collects data that either supports or refutes the theory
            3. makes necessary revisions before additional tests are conducted
   3. STRATEGIES OF INQUIRY
      1. Experiments
      2. Surveys
   4. METHODS
      1. Closed ended questions; pre-determined approaches, numeric data
7. QUALITATIVE FRAMEWORK
   1. available in the last 4-5 decades
   2. KNOWLEDGE CLAIMS
      1. Constructivists/Advocacy/Participatory knowledge claims
   3. STRATEGIES OF INQUIRY
      1. Ethnographies: Researcher studies an intact cultural group in a natural setting over a prolonged period of time by collecting mainly observational data
      2. Grounded Theory: Uses multiple stages of data collection and the refinement and interrelationship of categories of information.
         1. Constantly comparing data with emerging categories
         2. Theoretical sampling of different groups to maximise the similarities and differences of information
      3. Case Studies where the researcher explores an event, activity, process on one or more students
         1. collected over a period of time
         2. collect detailed information
            1. Interviews and observations
      4. Phenomenological Research examines the "lived experiences"
         1. small number of subjects over prolonged engagement
         2. Look for patterns and relationship of meaning
   4. METHODS
      1. Open ended questions, emerging approaches, text or image data
         1. Uses strategies to develop themes from the data
8. MIXED METHOD FRAMEWORK
   1. new and still development
   2. KNOWLEDGE CLAIMS
      1. Pragmatic Knowledge claims
   3. STRATEGIES OF INQUIRY
      1. Collecting and analysing both forms of data
      2. 3 General Strategies
         1. Sequential procedures in which the researcher elaborates or expands the findings of one method on another
         2. Concurrent Procedures in which the researcher converges quantitative and qualitative data in order to provide a comprehensive analysis of the study
         3. Transformative Procedures in which the researcher uses a theoretical lens as an overarching perspective within a design that contains both qualitative and quantitative data
   4. METHODS
      1. Uses strategies of inquiry that involve collecting data either simultaneously or sequentially to best understand research problems
         1. Uses both open and closed ended questions
         2. collects data simultaneously or sequentially to best understanding the research problems
         3. Uses numeric and text information
      2. Both open and closed ended questions, both emerging and predetermined approaches
   5. The results from one method can help develop and inform the other method