For Problem 3, which research strategies could enhance design validity, enhance reflexivity, and foster extension of findings?

Problem 3

A researcher wants to understand the concept of sitebased school management. He has located a school district

that has spent one year in planning and writing guidelines

for site-based management at six selected schools. The

researcher is primarily interested in how a site-based management team operates and whether this affects the role

of the principal and the school’s relationship to the district’s central management. A site-based management

team consists of six members from the community and

three teachers plus the principal as an ad hoc member. A

central office facilitator frequently attends the monthly

meetings after conducting six orientation sessions. How

would you design the study?

a. Which type of sampling is appropriate and why? (probability or qualitative)

b. How should the sampling be done?

c. Which qualitative methods would be appropriate?