ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the information-gathering methods in an attempt to answer the overarching question and the sub-questions. The aim of this study was to find out “why” there has been a shift in the earlier demand for Taiwanese universities to Korean universities. The major data was derived from the perceptions of students, teachers, parents, community leaders, and alumni through in-depth interviews. Data was gathered in a quantitative survey first. The data was then used for the qualitative study done in the interviews. Merriam (1988) asserts that internal validity assesses how well the researcher captures the subjects’ constructions of reality. Triangulation involves “using multiple investigators, multiple sources of data, or multiple methods to confirm the emerging findings” (Merriam, 1988, p. 169). The document analysis, the survey, and the interview provided an opportunity for triangulation.
