Types of Qualitative Research Flashcards
studies the lives of individuals and ask one or more individuals to provide stories about their lives
narrative research
sources of narrative research
• interviews
• observations through shadowing
• documents
• artifacts
the systematic collection and evaluation of data to describe explain and thereby understand actions or events that occurred sometime in the past
historical research
purposes of historical research
AAATU
- awareness of the past to learn from the failures and successes
- things done in the past the applicability of these to the present
- assist in prediction
- test hypotheses to see trends or relationships
- to understand the present educational practices and policies
types of sources for historical research
• Documents
• Numerical Records
• Oral Statements
• Relics
the source is a direct witness to the event
primary sources
the source is obtains their description from someone else
secondary sources
explores a real life or contemporary bound system or multiple bound systems over time through detail and depth data collection involving multiple sources of information and reports a case description and case themes
case study
case studies are based on a case as a unit of analysis
case unit
cases in a case study
individuals
organizations
processes
programs
neighborhoods
institutions
events
types of case studies
single instrumental case study
collective or multiple case study
intrinsic case study
a research question a puzzlement a need for general understanding and a feel that we may get inside into the question by studying a particular case
single instrumental case study
a research question a puzzlement a need for general understanding and a feel that we may get inside into the question by studying a particular group
collective/multiple case study
the focus is on its case itself because the case presents an unusual or unique situation
intrinsic case study
sources for a case study
Documents
Archival Records
Interviews
Direct Observation
Participant Observation
Physical Artifacts
describes the common meaning for several individuals of their live experience of a concept or phenomenon
phenomenology research
key characteristics of a phenomenology research
• rich and detailed descriptions of a phenomenon
• presents how the participants experience the phenomenon
Types of Phenomenology Research
Hermeneutic Phenomenology
Transcendental Phenomenology
oriented towards lived experiences and interpreting the text of life
Hermeneutic Phenomenology
focus less on the interpretations of the research and more on a description of the experience of the participants
transcendental phenomenology
process for a phenomenology research
• phenomenological reduction
• bracketing/epoche
• imaginative variation
• developing a statement from the composite and structural descriptions that reveal the essence of the phenomenon from a variety of perspectives
study of the meaning of the behaviors languages and the interactions among members of the culture shaping group
ethnography
behaviors and ideas
culture
groups history social structure politics religious beliefs symbols rituals and environment
holistic perspective
what was seen or heard was put into a larger perspective
contextualization
insiders perspective of reality
emic perspective
external objects perspective on reality
Etic perspective
great detail of what was seen or heard
Thick description
participant’s review of what the researchers have written
member checking
research team
critical colleagues
refrains from making value judgments about unfamiliar practices
non judgemental orientation
types of field notes
- field jotting
- field diary
- Field Log
- Reflective Field Notes
the inquiry generates a general explanation of a process an action or an interaction shaped by the views of a larger number of participants
grounded theory
characteristics of grounded theory
PRO-DE-ME-DA-IND
- process or an action that has distinct steps or phases over time
- develop a theory of the process or action in the end
- Memoing
- data and analysis are undertaken simultaneously and iteratively
- inductive procedures
data sources of grounded theory
interviewing
observations
document
group discussions
