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Ethical Constructivist Worldviews

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Validity:
The validity of the research assessed through triangulation. Obtaining the data from in several stages through observation, open-ended questionnaire also some questions of the interview helped to have different sources of data that can justify and complete the data.

Ethical concerns:
One of the ethical concerns that should have been addressed in this research was the confidentiality of the information of the company that research been conducted in their properties. In order to keep the company’s information from the public no photos or videos collected from the observations [].
The other ethical concern could be the feelings of the participants about their performance in escaping from the room that could lead to blaming each other …show more content…

for instance, since the presence of the researcher in the room may lead to affect the behaviors of the participants, it could be better if the researcher could watch their behavior through a monitor or a one-way mirror. Also if both of the researchers could take notes of all groups it could prevent some biases of the researchers. The reason that the researcher chose the constructivist worldview is that aside from pragmatic approach none of other worldviews provide a thorough understanding about the nature of a behavior and its process and one of the aims of the researcher was to obtain a dip understanding of how people collaborate and play in escape rooms. By using the post-positivist worldview, it is possible to test and measure the effects of some variables on the collaboration of the participants but it does not give a complete explanation about how and why these interactions happen among people. Therefore, employing the qualitative approach seems a necessity. Furthermore, as the researcher explained in the paper, there are limited number of previous research about the topic in the same context which makes it hard to identify the effective variables on the collaboration also appropriate measurement tools in the escape room context to conduct a quantitative research. Thus, conducting mixed method research requires to have a better understanding of the subject matter. In a similar manner, using the case study methodology is the best way to gain a dip understanding of the

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