Describes and contrasts philosophical and methodological assumptions, goals, and data collection methods of qualitative and quantitative approaches to research on college student behavior. Provides brief illustrations of two qualitative studies of college students using interview methods, ethnomethodology, and conversation analysis. (Author/NB)

Describes the application of a multimethod research approach to obtain data on students at a small college. Emphasizes the value of the multimethod/multitrait research strategy, also referred to as triangulation, or convergent methodology, where two or more methods, often qualitative and quantitative, are integrated to study the same variables.…

This report and a motivation seminar were prepared for teachers in the Social Sciences Department at Champlain Regional College (Quebec) to study motivational dispositions of students who either avoided registering for a course in Quantitative Methods or failed out in important numbers. Teachers' consensus was that students in general seemed to…