-> The following information is gleaned from _Qualitative_ _Research_
-> _For_ _Education_ which is a Master's level text used at the
-> University Of Portland in Oregon (and elsewhere).  The authors are
-> Robert Bagdan and Sari Knopp Biklen.  Badgan has a Masters Degree in
-> Education and a Ph.D in Sociology from Syracuse University.  He also
-> holds a dual
-> professorship in Special Education and Sociology at Syracuse.  He has
-> authored other books on qualitative research and written for many
-> professional publications.
->
-> Biklen has her Ed.D in Education from the University of Massachusetts
-> at Amherst.  She teaches qualitative research workshops for graduate
-> students and is director of the Education Design Group, a
-> not-for-profit research and consulting firm.  In addition to having
-> done research for the Fleischmann Commission, she has also taught at
-> Syracuse University. She too has written a book on qualitative
-> research.
->
-> If what these two educators have to say about qualitative research
-> and it's use in education doesn't cause you to sit up and take
-> notice, then I, a mere kindergarten teacher of 8 years with very
-> little first hand research experience (especially of the type you
-> describe....my research training was mostly qualitative) then this
-> thread may as well end right here.  Nothing *I* say to you will
-> matter if don't acknowledge
-> qualitative research approaches as valid.
Ed.D in Education? Masters Degree in Education and Ph.D. in Sociology?
Such credentials do not convince me that they really understand that
mathematics of statistics. Programs that give degrees such as the ones
you cite above do require some training in statistical methods, but it
is not that substantial. It would be more meaningful to many of us here
if the methods used by these Ed. degree researchers were analyzed by
some mathematicians or statisticians and proclaimed as valid research
methods.
Sheila King
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