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Qualitative Studies Seeks to understand the meaning of human experience
Usually conducted in natural settings
Seeks to DESCRIBE experiences
Subjective approach
Theory generating
Quantitative Studies Seeks to test relationships or answer a question
Explains cause-and-effect relationships
Seeks to DESCRIBE phenomena
Objectivity is important
Theory testing
What is qualitative research? Seeks to answer why questions
explanatory and descriptive
words rather than numbers
often used to begin to understand a phenomena
in a naturalistic setting
Naturalistic setting The setting that people live in daily
Important because qualitative researchers consider the context to be very important in
understanding a phenomenon
What are beliefs of qualitative research? There are multiple realities:
-There are similarities and differences in every person's experience.
Reality is socially constructed and context dependent:
, -Meaning of an observation is defined by its circumstance or context.
Components of qualitative literature Review of the literature
Epistemology
Review of literature Similar to quantitative reports but usually there is less published
literature available
May need to review studies with related or similar subjects, populations, or concepts
May wait to do the literature review until after study, but still need a basic review for
justification
Epistemology Types of philosophies that make up the way that we think about things. This is
the way that we think about knowledge and where it comes from. Study/theory of knowledge.
Steps in the research process: Literature review
Study design
Sample
Setting: recruitment and data collection
Data collection
Data analysis
Findings
Conclusion
Study Design Should be congruent with the philosophy of the qualitative researcher
May use a particular qualitative method or may follow the general tenets of qualitative
research
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Qualitative Studies Seeks to understand the meaning of human experience
Usually conducted in natural settings
Seeks to DESCRIBE experiences
Subjective approach
Theory generating
Quantitative Studies Seeks to test relationships or answer a question
Explains cause-and-effect relationships
Seeks to DESCRIBE phenomena
Objectivity is important
Theory testing
What is qualitative research? Seeks to answer why questions
explanatory and descriptive
words rather than numbers
often used to begin to understand a phenomena
in a naturalistic setting
Naturalistic setting The setting that people live in daily
Important because qualitative researchers consider the context to be very important in
understanding a phenomenon
What are beliefs of qualitative research? There are multiple realities:
-There are similarities and differences in every person's experience.
Reality is socially constructed and context dependent:
, -Meaning of an observation is defined by its circumstance or context.
Components of qualitative literature Review of the literature
Epistemology
Review of literature Similar to quantitative reports but usually there is less published
literature available
May need to review studies with related or similar subjects, populations, or concepts
May wait to do the literature review until after study, but still need a basic review for
justification
Epistemology Types of philosophies that make up the way that we think about things. This is
the way that we think about knowledge and where it comes from. Study/theory of knowledge.
Steps in the research process: Literature review
Study design
Sample
Setting: recruitment and data collection
Data collection
Data analysis
Findings
Conclusion
Study Design Should be congruent with the philosophy of the qualitative researcher
May use a particular qualitative method or may follow the general tenets of qualitative
research
