Harper High School Case Study Essay

The radio producers in my eyes, engaged in a case study design. A case study is, something of interest in its own right, and the researcher(s) goal is to provide a detailed clarification of it (Bell 42-43). Harper High School, is on its own very interesting, it is a, if not the most gun violence infested school in Chicago. Chicago, at the time was the only major metropolitan with rising murder rates, and Englewood (location of the school) has one of the highest neighbourhood murder rates. Harper High, embodied all the problems faced by the neighbourhood, and city, because it witnessed the issue of violence, like nothing else. Thus, when they sent in three reporters, they wanted to collect, detailed qualitative data, which would hopefully, illustrate

If I, was to go to Harper High School, I would use credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability to make my findings valid. Credibility, focuses on making sure that the interpretations presented in the study are true to the observed (168-170). The purpose of qualitative research is to describe the perspective from the participant 's eyes, thus, the participants are the only ones who can legitimately judge the credibility of the results. Since, I would be conducting similar research to the radio producers, seeing the daily activities of the students would help establish credibility, since it is direct data. Transferability, is a response to generalization (done by quantitative research), it creates ‘thick description’ which is detailed description of the research and assumptions (168-170). By providing rich detailed experiences of the school environment, I would create a large enough amount of data, so that the onus of the being able to ‘transfer’ the findings is now onto others. Dependability, is used to explain the always fluctuating setting of research (168-170). Describing what did, or did not changed affects the way the research was approached and studied, creates