The task set in the script for the experiment is to establish the attitude of students toward the survey they have completed. It is required to choose a design that goes beyond the survey and comparison of the control and experimental groups. By comparing various innovative methods of psychological investigation, it becomes possible to find the most effective combination suitable for obtaining an exhaustive result.
Traditional types of qualitative psychological research include four approaches: theoretical, discursive, narrative, and phenomenological. While the first is based on provable theoretical postulates, the other three individually consider the experience and thought processes of each respondent (Forrester, 2010). In those cases when theoretical settings are not enough to test the scenario of an anonymous survey, it is required to turn to one of the remaining methods. Using the discursive method of analyzing language as an expression of experience, it would be possible to establish the hidden and non-obvious reactions of an individual subject, characterizing their real attitude to the intervention. A narrative approach, on the other hand, can answer the question of the impact of the intervention on their classroom and extracurricular learning practices. Through the analysis of sequential storytelling, it would be possible to typify the answers and get a statistical result.
The researchers have to be prepared to receive contradictory, pluralistic results, which may not form a singular picture but will provide a sufficient amount of new insight. As part of a review of modern interdisciplinary methods, the use of these tactics can be called related to pragmatism, that is, a method conditioned by the need to obtain a result by any means. Bricolage, or a method designed to take into account cultural and historical formative experience, seems overly detailed and particular in this case, while also it may be considered unethical and unrelated to the inquiry. However, the narrative-discursive combined analysis also referred to as flexible narrative analysis, seems appropriate in this case.
Work Cited
Forrester, M. A. (2010). Doing qualitative research in psychology. Sage.