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Qualitative research
About: Qualitative research is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 39957 publications have been published within this topic receiving 2390470 citations. The topic is also known as: Qualitative method.
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TL;DR: The authors discuss the application of vignettes within quantitative and qualitative research traditions derived from the available literature before outlining the major theoretical and methodological issues relating to the use of this technique in social research.
Abstract: Few methodological papers exist which examine the use of vignettes within qualitative research and more specifically, with children and young people. The paper will briefly discuss the application of vignettes within quantitative and qualitative research traditions derived from the available literature before outlining the major theoretical and methodological issues relating to the use of this technique in social research. Using empirical examples of young people's responses to a selected vignette, we then go on to explore the various benefits of vignettes that can ensue when employing this technique in isolation or as part of a multi-method approach. This discussion concludes with an exploration of how vignettes can be harnessed to engage young people, particularly in the discussion of sensitive topics, whilst enabling them to retain a high level of control over the research process.
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01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe how high quality research can be done in science education and include four main sections in which they explain the purposes of qualitative research, data collection, data analysis, and preparation of reports.
Abstract: In this chapter, I describe how high quality research can be done in science education. I include four main sections in which I explain the purposes of qualitative research, data collection, data analysis, and preparation of reports. I emphasize the salience to qualitative research of specifying researchable questions that inevitably change as the research is conducted. I address issues of credibility, ethical conduct, uses of quantitative information, and the necessity to fully understand contradictions.
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TL;DR: The authors used interview and survey data to identify gender-responsive offending pathways and found that women were more likely to report gender responsiveness to gender-related offending pathways compared to men in the interviews and surveys.
Abstract: Although qualitative research in the area of gender-responsive offending pathways has grown extensively, little quantitative work has been conducted. This study utilizes interview and survey data t...
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01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: The Critical Inquiry in Qualitative Research: Feminist and Poststructural Perspectives: Science "After Truth" as discussed by the authors is an example of the Critical Incident Technique in Research, which is used in many qualitative interviews.
Abstract: Contents: Preface. K. deMarrais, S.D. Lapan, Introduction. K. Tisdale, Being Vulnerable and Being Ethical With/in Research. K. Rousmaniere, Historical Research. K. deMarrais, Qualitative Interview Studies: Learning Through Experience. D.L. Kain, Owning Significance: The Critical Incident Technique in Research. P.B. Kleiber, Focus Groups: More Than a Method of Qualitative Inquiry. M.K. Kramp, Exploring Life and Experience Through Narrative Inquiry. J. Johnson-Bailey, Enjoining Positionality and Power in Narrative Work: Balancing Contentious and Modulating Forces. K.J. Roulston, Ethnomethodological and Conversation Analytic Studies. J. Preissle, L. Grant, Fieldwork Traditions: Ethnography and Participant Observation. G.W. Noblit, Reinscribing Critique in Educational Ethnography: Critical and Postcritical Ethnography. P. Lather, Critical Inquiry in Qualitative Research: Feminist and Poststructural Perspectives: Science "After Truth." P.A. Hays, Case Study Research. S.D. Lapan, Evaluation Studies. G. Garaway, Participatory Evaluation. P.A. Schutz, C.B. Chambless, J.T. DeCuir, Multimethods Research. S.R. Hutchinson, Survey Research. K.A. Sealander, Single-Subject Experimental Research: An Overview for Practitioners. L.H. Cross, G.M. Belli, Experimental Research to Inform Educational Policy. E.R. House, Using Multiple Methodologies: The Case of Retention in Chicago.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the historical background of phenomenology as both a theory and a qualitative research approach, an approach that has transitioned into an interpretative analytical tradition, and provide a step-by-step comprehensive guide to help novice qualitative researchers.
Abstract: As a research methodology, qualitative research method infuses an added advantage to the exploratory capability that researchers need to explore and investigate their research studies. Qualitative methodology allows researchers to advance and apply their interpersonal and subjectivity skills to their research exploratory processes. However, in a study with an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach, the advantageous elements of the study quadruple because of the bonding relationship that the approach allows for the researchers to develop with their research participants. Furthermore, as a qualitative research approach, IPA gives researchers the best opportunity to understand the innermost deliberation of the ‘lived experiences’ of research participants. As an approach that is ‘participant-oriented’, interpretative phenomenological analysis approach allows the interviewees (research participants) to express themselves and their ‘lived experience’ stories the way they see fit without any distortion and/or prosecution. Therefore, utilizing the IPA approach in a qualitative research study reiterates the fact that its main objective and essence are to explore the ‘lived experiences’ of the research participants and allow them to narrate the research findings through their ‘lived experiences’. As such, this paper discusses the historical background of phenomenology as both a theory and a qualitative research approach, an approach that has transitioned into an interpretative analytical tradition. Furthermore, as a resource tool to novice qualitative researchers, this paper provides a step-by-step comprehensive guide to help prepare and equip researchers with ways to utilize and apply the IPA approach in their qualitative research studies. More importantly, this paper also provides an advanced in-depth analysis and usability application for the IPA approach in a qualitatively conducted research study. As such, this paper completely contrasted itself from many books and articles that are written with the premise of providing useful and in-depth information on the subject-matter (phenomenology, as a qualitative approach).
456 citations