Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication, Department of
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
2022
Citation
New Dir Stud Lead. 2022;2022:31–40.
DOI: 10.1002/yd.20517
Abstract
This article discusses how the design of research should follow the questions the study seeks to address. The article provides practical and diverse examples of broad research questions applicable to researchers or program architects and summarizes how different methods should be employed to respond.
I have been teaching “Research Methods in Leadership Education” for the past five years. The goal of the course is to help orient graduate students to leadership research and assessment, and for many students, I’m introducing them to social science research and assessment broadly. The beauty and challenge of engaging in leadership research and assessment is that it is transdisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary. What this means in practice is that leadership research and assessment have fewer conventional boundaries when compared to other more established fields (e.g., psychology). Leadership is not unique in this respect, as education research and assessment – another applied field of study – exists in what, at times, feels like boundless space. This freedom is both a blessing and a curse.
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