Coursework Entry

22 Historical Research

A course-linked artifact from the broader doctoral archive.

  • no experiment
  • Looking at primary and secondary source materials
  • Could also include interviewing.
  • Qualitative research that may or may not include human subjects.
  • IRB required if collecting new data from humans
  • often read as a story - entertaining.

    Steps

  • define the problem
  • Locate the sources
    • Primary - was there
    • Secondary - prepared by a second party
  • relic is an object of the past
  • Content analysis
  • Papists and Pluralists - School Choice historical research by James Shuls