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Record W4407803293 · doi:10.1075/rmal.8.01saw

Reflectivity and reflexivity in qualitative research and scholarship

2025· book-chapter· en· W4407803293 on OpenAlexaff
Richard D. Sawyer, Pejman Habibie

Bibliographic record

VenueResearch methods in applied linguistics · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicQualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsReflexivityScholarshipReflectivityQualitative researchSociologyX-ray reflectivityPolitical scienceOpticsSocial sciencePhysics

Abstract

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Abstract In this chapter, we first introduce four reflexive methodologies: autoethnography, duoethnography, narrative inquiry, and currere. Although these four approaches vary, they all involve inquirers telling stories about self and culture. Researchers working with these methodologies explore subjective yet socially situated, personal yet relational, and discursive yet emancipatory questions and topics. Describing these methodologies, we refer both to published accounts and literature and to specific chapters in this book. Central to these methodologies are the related concepts of reflection and reflexivity. Given their multiple levels, reflection and reflexivity assume a range of profiles, both individually and collectively. As a framework for “reading” reflection and reflexivity in this chapter, we consider the following structure: (a) what they are, (b) how they are enacted and mobilized within inquiry, and (c) what they yield within and from inquiry. Finally, we present an overview of the subsequent chapters in this volume.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.416
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.307
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Meta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies, Research integrity
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.719
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.4160.307
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0040.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.013
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.016
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.807
GPT teacher head0.779
Teacher spread0.028 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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