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Qualitative Research (Intro to Qualitative Research (https://youtu…
Qualitative Research
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Introductory Resources
Qualitative research is an enormous field. Below are some resources to get you started, followed by some more in-depth (but still novice-friendly) sources and courses.
- Qualitative Research Methods Overview, from Qualitative Research Methods: A Data Collector's Field Guide
- A Guide to Using Qualitative Research Methodology, from Michael Patton and Michael Cochran of Medecins Sans Frontieres
- What is Qualitative Research?, from Qualitative Research Consultants Association
- When to Use Qualitative Research, from Qualitative Research Consultants Association
- Qualitative Research, from Burke Johnson of South Alabama University
- What is qualitative research?, from The Marketing Donut
- Qualitative Measures, from the Web Center for Social Research Methods
- Qualitative Research Methods, from Michelle Saint-Germain of California State University-Long Beach
- Qualitative Research Design, from Martyn Shuttleworth of Explorable
- Qualitative Research Guidelines Project, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Qualitative Research, from the University of Surrey
Additional sources for learning more about qualitative methods include:
Scholarly Readings
Qualitative research has been the subject of much meta-research into its reliability and usefulness. Below are some scholarly sources that talk about the value of qualitative research, and especially how to use it in education. Note that qualitative research is often used in nursing and medicine as well, and you may see sources that talk about it in those domains; generally, the concepts are relatively transferable.
For more comprehensive information, see:
Additional resources can be found in the following general journals:
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Case Study Research
One of the most prominent types of qualitative research is case study research, where researchers get very close to a small set of cases of a phenomenon. The results of this may then be transferred to other cases (though not generalized to absolute truths), or used as the foundation for subsequent quantitative research. Note that qualitative research is often used in nursing and medicine as well, and you may see sources that talk about it in those domains; generally, the concepts are relatively transferable.
For more comprehensive information, see:
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