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QUALITATIVE RESEARCH - Coggle Diagram
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
PART 1 - WHAT IS QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Study
perspectives of research participants toward
events, beliefs, or practices
Capture the human meanings of social life
Lived
Experience
understood by the
research participants
Researcher
Good qualitative research
rigorous in
research methods
Inductive
Investigative
main instrument
6 General Steps in Qualitative Research
Review of research
Selecting participant
Collecting data
Analyzing data
Reporting, Evaluating and interpreting research
Identify research topic
Approaches
Ethnomethodology
Grounded theory
Systematic qualitative method that
aims to generate a theory
Constant comparison method
Compare and integrates the data collects
Eliminates redundant results
Inductive
Ethology
Phenomenology
Ethnography
describe and analyse all part of the culture of a community
Characteristic
accurate reflection
build local
cultural theories
multiple data sources
face-to-face
interaction
Natural setting
Symbolic interaction
Historical research
Action research
Done by
practitioners
Less formal
Systematic inquiry
PART 2: What are the first 3 steps (Step 1 - Step 3) of qualitative research?
STEP
Step 2: Reviewing the literature
Step 3: Selecting research
participants
Step 1: Selecting a research topic
Strategies
Narrow the number of participants to save time
and analyses
Examine the literature of determine the scale of
the topic
Narrow the audience to be addressed
Look for potential problems during the early steps
of the research
Narrow the time or resource of topic
PART 3: Moving on to Step 4 - How do we collect data in qualitative research?
Step 4: Data Collection
a) Observation
Types of observers
Participant observer
External or nonparticipant observer
Field notes
Memo writing
Recording observations
Assessing observer reliability
b) Interview
Types of interviews
Unstructured
Semistructured
Structured
Single participant or a group of participants
Focus group
Collecting data from interviews
Writing notes after the interview
Audio- or videotaping the interview
Taking notes during the interview
Guidelines for interviewing
Don’t interrupt
Tolerate silence
Avoid leading questions
Don’t be judgmental about participants’ views or
beliefs
Listen more, talk less
Don’t debate with participants over their
responses
PART 4: Step 5 - How do we analyse qualitative data? Step 6 - How do write a qualitative research report?
Step 6: Writing the Report
Writer - verify logical connection
Focus on the key themes and interpretations
tests the quality and
meaningfulness of ideas and logic
Step 5: Data Analysis
Steps in analysing
Describing the context and participants
Examining the data in depth to provide detailed descriptions of the setting, participants and activity
Classifying
categorising and coding pieces of data and
grouping them into themes
Reading/memoing
becoming familiar with the data and identifying
potential potential themes in it
Interpreting
Synthesizing the organised data general written conclusions or understandings based on the data
Data managing
Data organising activities