Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach

✍ Scribed by Joseph A. Maxwell

• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Series: Applied Social Research Methods 41
• Edition: Third Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides researchers and students with a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. It shows how the components of design interact with each other, and provides a strategy for creating coherent and workable relationships among these design components, highlighting key design issues. Written in an informal, jargon-free style, the book incorporates examples and hands-on exercises. [Sage Publications, Inc.]

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page......Page 2
Title......Page 8
Copyright......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
About the Author......Page 16
Chapter 1. A Model for Qualitative Research Design......Page 17
The Organization of This Book......Page 31
The Exercises in This Book......Page 32
Notes......Page 34
Personal, Practical, and Intellectual Goals......Page 35
What Goals Can Qualitative Research Help You Achieve?......Page 40
Notes......Page 48
Chapter 3. Conceptual Framework: What Do You Think Is Going On?......Page 49
The Value (and Pitfalls) of Research Paradigms......Page 51
Experiential Knowledge......Page 54
Prior Theory and Research......Page 57
The Uses of Existing Theory......Page 58
Concept Maps......Page 62
Other Uses of Existing Research......Page 71
Pilot and Exploratory Studies......Page 72
Thought Experiments......Page 74
Notes......Page 77
Chapter 4. Research Questions: What Do You Want to Understand?......Page 78
The Functions of Research Questions......Page 79
Research Questions and Other Kinds of Questions......Page 80
Research Hypotheses in Qualitative Designs......Page 81
General Questions and Particular Questions......Page 82
Instrumentalist Questions and Realist Questions......Page 83
Variance Questions and Process Questions......Page 86
Developing Research Questions......Page 87
Chapter 5. Methods: What Will You Actually Do?......Page 91
More and Less Structured Approaches......Page 92
Negotiating Research Relationships......Page 94
Site and Participant Selection......Page 99
The Relationship Between Research Questions and Data Collections Methods......Page 102
Using Multiple Data Collection Methods......Page 104
Strategies for Qualitative Data Analysis......Page 106
Computers and Qualitative Data Analysis......Page 115
Linking Methods and Questions......Page 116
Notes......Page 119
The Concept of Validity......Page 121
Researcher Bias......Page 123
Validity Tests: A Checklist......Page 124
Generalization in Qualitative Research......Page 135
Notes......Page 136
Chapter 7. Research Proposals: Presenting and Justifying a Qualitative Study......Page 138
The Purpose of a Proposal......Page 139
The Relationship Between Your Research Design and Your Proposal Argument......Page 140
A Model for Proposal Structure......Page 141
Notes......Page 156
Appendix A: A Proposal for a Study of Medical School Teaching......Page 157
Appendix B: A Proposal for a Study of Online Learning by Teachers......Page 173
References......Page 189
Index......Page 200