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Article: Crisp sets and Boolean algebra: a research strategy for student affairs.(Report)
- Article from:
- College Student Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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A review of student affairs journals clearly points out that most, if not all, research strategies within the field fall within traditional approaches based on quantitative methods and, more recently, qualitative methods. The purpose of this article is not to discourage use of these time honored research strategies, but to suggest the inclusion of a method using crisp sets and Boolean algebra as a research strategy, and to illustrate this method by example, and to discuss how this method can be of value to student affairs researchers.
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To the authors' knowledge all research that has been published focusing on students in higher education has been based on the ...