The Briefcase

The Briefcase is my little corner of the web devoted to educational research. I am just getting started on my second semester of graduate school and have begun to collect websites and create resources related to research. Since I've already benefited from others' collections, I thought I would contribute my resources to the web community..

Inspiration Webs and Matrices:

As I am visual learner, I started creating webs for different research topics. Using Inspiration, I designed the webs then saved them as both web pages and pdf files. I also have links to the original Inspiiration files for those of you who own the program. By the way, if you don't own Inspiration, you should! You can get a thirty-day demo at their website.

Qualitative Research: A series of webs that attempt to group types of qualitative research. They are all internally linked so you can start with the main web and then view the rest of them. I've also included links to the individual webs.

Paradigm Matrix: Ontology, Epistemology, Methods and Purposes

Web Resources:

I don't want to overwhelm you with hundreds of research websites. Instead, I will choose the ones that I found the most helpful.

General Research Resources

Qualitative Research Resources

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