A Few Thoughts on Goodman

This was a good article for me to read.  I had been annoyed at one of my articles for my lit review (you know that thing I still need to write--ahhh!) because the researchers kept making generalizations based on their data/findings.  What I realized through reading this article (along with the other two articles on interviews) is that the problem was not the generalization in and of itself.  The problem was that they didn't do a good job of backing up their claims.  Likely they are correct that deaf teachers do the things they noted.  But they only had one deaf teacher in their study.  And their mention of other research was very much in passing and not at all detailed.  How did they determine that her actions are indicative of the the actions of all deaf teachers?  Had they given more of a description on earlier findings or made their own analysis more visible I would have been more apt to buy into the "validity" of their claims.    I suppose Goodman did a nice job of convincing me that DA findings can be generalizable with his clear example and criterion.