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  1. PDF Students' Perceptions towards the Quality of Online Education: A

    Yi Yang Linda F. Cornelius Mississippi State University. Abstract. How to ensure the quality of online learning in institutions of higher education has been a growing concern during the past several years. While several studies have focused on the perceptions of faculty and administrators, there has been a paucity of research conducted on ...

  2. A Qualitative Case Study of Students' Perceptions of Their Experiences

    qualitative research professor. I was positive that I would design a quantitative research study but the qualitative courses in the program highlighted the merits of qualitative research. Dr. Cozza and Ms. Rosaria Cimino, thanks for the advisement support. To all the Ed.D. candidates that I encountered on my academic journey, especially my

  3. Qualitative Study

    Qualitative research is a type of research that explores and provides deeper insights into real-world problems.[1] Instead of collecting numerical data points or intervene or introduce treatments just like in quantitative research, qualitative research helps generate hypotheses as well as further investigate and understand quantitative data. Qualitative research gathers participants ...

  4. How to use and assess qualitative research methods

    This paper aims to provide an overview of the use and assessment of qualitative research methods in the health sciences. Qualitative research can be defined as the study of the nature of phenomena and is especially appropriate for answering questions of why something is (not) observed, assessing complex multi-component interventions, and focussing on intervention improvement.

  5. Planning Qualitative Research: Design and Decision Making for New

    Given the nuance and complexity of qualitative research, this paper provides an accessible starting point from which novice researchers can begin their journey of learning about, designing, and conducting qualitative research. ... First, there are many ways to approach a qualitative study and second, for each approach, there are specific data ...

  6. Qualitative Research: Sage Journals

    Qualitative Research is a peer-reviewed international journal that has been leading debates about qualitative methods for over 20 years. The journal provides a forum for the discussion and development of qualitative methods across disciplines, publishing high quality articles that contribute to the ways in which we think about and practice the craft of qualitative research.

  7. What Is Qualitative Research?

    Qualitative research involves collecting and analyzing non-numerical data (e.g., text, video, or audio) to understand concepts, opinions, or experiences. It can be used to gather in-depth insights into a problem or generate new ideas for research. Qualitative research is the opposite of quantitative research, which involves collecting and ...

  8. Qualitative Methods

    Below are the three key elements that define a qualitative research study and the applied forms each take in the investigation of a research problem. The Design Naturalistic -- refers to studying real-world situations as they unfold naturally; non-manipulative and non-controlling; the researcher is open to whatever emerges [i.e., there is a ...

  9. A Front-to-Back Guide to Writing a Qualitative Research Article

    In qualitative research, the case study is one of the frequently used methodologies (Yazan, 2015). ... This paper examines how written research accounts based on ethnography appeal to readers to ...

  10. The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research

    Abstract. The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research, second edition, presents a comprehensive retrospective and prospective review of the field of qualitative research. Original, accessible chapters written by interdisciplinary leaders in the field make this a critical reference work. Filled with robust examples from real-world research ...

  11. Learning to Do Qualitative Data Analysis: A Starting Point

    For many researchers unfamiliar with qualitative research, determining how to conduct qualitative analyses is often quite challenging. Part of this challenge is due to the seemingly limitless approaches that a qualitative researcher might leverage, as well as simply learning to think like a qualitative researcher when analyzing data. From framework analysis (Ritchie & Spencer, 1994) to content ...

  12. How to use and assess qualitative research methods

    This paper aims to provide an overview of the use and assessment of qualitative research methods in the health sciences. Qualitative research can be defined as the study of the nature of phenomena and is especially appropriate for answering questions of why something is (not) observed, assessing complex multi-component interventions, and focussing on intervention improvement. The most common ...

  13. Qualitative Study

    Qualitative research is a type of research that explores and provides deeper insights into real-world problems. Instead of collecting numerical data points or intervene or introduce treatments just like in quantitative research, qualitative research helps generate hypotheses as well as further investigate and understand quantitative data.

  14. Qualitative Research: An Overview

    Qualitative research Footnote 1 —research that primarily or exclusively uses non-numerical data—is one of the most commonly used types of research and methodology in the social sciences. Unfortunately, qualitative research is commonly misunderstood. It is often considered "easy to do" (thus anyone can do it with no training), an "anything goes approach" (lacks rigor, validity and ...

  15. Criteria for Good Qualitative Research: A Comprehensive Review

    Fundamental Criteria: General Research Quality. Various researchers have put forward criteria for evaluating qualitative research, which have been summarized in Table 3.Also, the criteria outlined in Table 4 effectively deliver the various approaches to evaluate and assess the quality of qualitative work. The entries in Table 4 are based on Tracy's "Eight big‐tent criteria for excellent ...

  16. Qualitative Research: Data Collection, Analysis, and Management

    It is also possible to use different types of research in the same study, an approach known as "mixed methods" research, and further reading on this topic may be found at the end of this paper. The role of the researcher in qualitative research is to attempt to access the thoughts and feelings of study participants.

  17. PDF Reporting Qualitative Research in Psychology

    Chapters 4 through 7 consider the typical sections of a qualitative research paper— the introductory sections, Method, Results, and Discussion. These chapters emphasize aspects of reporting that are unique to qualitative research. They describe the general elements that should be reported in qualitative papers and can assist authors in devel-

  18. Case Study Methodology of Qualitative Research: Key Attributes and

    A case study is one of the most commonly used methodologies of social research. This article attempts to look into the various dimensions of a case study research strategy, the different epistemological strands which determine the particular case study type and approach adopted in the field, discusses the factors which can enhance the effectiveness of a case study research, and the debate ...

  19. PDF Sample of the Qualitative Research Paper

    QUALITATIVE RESEARCH PAPER 1 Sample of the Qualitative Research Paper ... inexhaustible to be addressed in a research study of any scope, say nothing of an undergraduate or a graduate level research paper. There are research directions and research questions suggested by your research topic but are not addressed in this research study. ...

  20. Collecting qualitative data using a smartphone app: Learning from

    This article discusses the use of a smartphone application ('app') as a method for undertaking diary-based qualitative research with a group of participants with lived experience of multiple disadvantage (experience of two or more of homelessness, offending, mental ill-health and substance misuse). As part of a multi-method approach to the study, an app was designed for participants to ...

  21. What is Qualitative in Qualitative Research

    Qualitative research involves the studied use and collection of a variety of empirical materials - case study, personal experience, introspective, life story, interview, observational, historical, interactional, and visual texts - that describe routine and problematic moments and meanings in individuals' lives.

  22. Identifying Barriers and Facilitators to Accessing Care for ...

    The research team underwent research training with a qualitative research expert to develop the data analysis plan. We organized the focus group question guide for the semi-structured interviews into system, provider, community, and individual level barriers, according to an existing healthcare disparities theory [ 21 ] (Table 1 ).

  23. Client Experiences and Perceptions of Naturopathic Treatment ...

    This study was internally funded by South Pacific College of Natural Medicine. Conflict of Interests: The authors' have no competing interests or conflict of interest to declare. Ethical Approval: This study received ethics approval from South Pacific College of Natural Medicine Research Ethics Committee (Reference number: 2019/01).

  24. Ethical Dilemmas in Qualitative Research: A Critical Literature Review

    To appraise critically ethical standards within qualitative research: Case study—intimate partners interviews: ... The reflection on the researcher's role and his/her influence on the research field was the theme of the paper by Råheim et al. (2016). During two years, a group of six experienced researchers had meetings to debate this theme ...

  25. Administrative Sciences

    The paper presents an empirical study which employs qualitative in-depth interviews with 34 undergraduate business students from one public university in the Midwest of the United States. The findings reveal a complex view of entrepreneurship that extends beyond traditional business creation, encompassing elements of social innovation and ...

  26. Presenting and Evaluating Qualitative Research

    The purpose of this paper is to help authors to think about ways to present qualitative research papers in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. It also discusses methods for reviewers to assess the rigour, quality, and usefulness of qualitative research. Examples of different ways to present data from interviews, observations, and ...

  27. Impact of COVID-19 on celebration of death, mortuary, and funerary

    This study aims to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the observance of death rituals in Bangladesh and the effects on bereaved families and close relatives. This study employed a qualitative approach and gathered data through 3 key informant interviews (KIIs) and 58 in-depth interviews (IDIs) conducted between December 2020 and January ...

  28. Using tables to enhance trustworthiness in qualitative research

    The classification we propose draws mainly on our knowledge of published qualitative studies and our familiarity with this tool; it did, however, benefit from a careful review of qualitative research published in top journals in the last 3 years, as we used tables from these articles to validate, extend, refine, and exemplify our classification.