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Peer reviewedLincoln, Yvonna S.; Guba, Egon G. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1986
The emergence of a new, naturalistic, paradigm of inquiry has led to a demand for rigorous criteria that meet traditional standards of inquiry. Two sets are suggested, one of which, the "trustworthiness" criteria, parallels conventional criteria, while the second, "authenticity" criteria, is implied directly by new paradigm…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Models, Observation, Program Evaluation
Guba, Egon G.; Lincoln, Yvonna S. – Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development, 1982
Five major differences between the rationalistic and naturalistic paradigms of inquiry are accounted for: the nature of reality; the nature of the inquirer-object relationship; the nature of truth statements; assumptions about causal relationships; and the role of values within disciplined inquiry. Thirty-one sources are appended. (EJS)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Comparative Analysis, Epistemology, Inquiry
Download full textLincoln, Yvonna S. – 1988
All social science serves some agenda: social science research is a value-bound, value-determined, context-situated, and ideologically loaded enterprise. Each researcher makes choices in the following areas, whether tacitly, implicitly, or deliberately: (1) a paradigm choice, either conventional (rationalistic) or emerging (naturalistic); (2) the…
Descriptors: Bias, Ideology, Models, Naturalistic Observation
Peer reviewedLincoln, Yvonna S. – Review of Higher Education, 1986
New perspectives on social science research suggest five propositions: studies in higher education must not be value-singular; higher education researchers must not ignore "harbingers of the paradigm revolution"; they must take into account new interpretations of knowledge acquisition; they must not depend on prescriptive models; and they must…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Educational Research, Higher Education, Models
Lincoln, Yvonna S. – 1986
This paper presents criteria for establishing the trustworthiness of naturalistic inquiries, and specific techniques to facilitate their achievement or determine the degree of their achievement. The following criteria are briefly described: fairness; and ontological, educative, catalytic and tactical authenticity. Explored in greater detail,…
Descriptors: Credibility, Data Collection, Educational Research, Epistemology
Lincoln, Yvonna S. – 1988
The revolution in hard sciences is explored, from the Cartesian-Newtonian worldview to the Heisenbergian universe, and consideration is given to whether the conventional, Cartesian model is a serviceable one for research in the social/applied sciences. Five axioms comprising the existing paradigm of logical positivism are outlined (reality,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Inquiry
