This workshop provides an overview of types of qualitative designs: in-depth interviews, focus groups, content analysis, observation, sampling strategies, participant recruitment, constructing an ...

Designed to provide campus graduate students with focused training, guidance, and peer community contributing to successful qualitative research outcomes. These sessions will emphasize unique ...

Qualitative research uncovers the “why” Using methods like interviews, focus groups and ethnography, qualitative research seeks to answer the “why” and “how” behind people’s experiences and behavior.

Learn how to select the best research methodology for your PhD, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods.

For example, "Qualitative research, in isolation, is nothing but glorified journalism. " This one might not be new to you. Yes, qualitative is flawed, but so, too, is quantitative.

Qualitative research assessment methods look squarely at the value of the research and attempt to place it on a scale of usefulness or validity. Quality, however, is a vague concept.

The proliferation of qualitative methods in educational research has led to considerable controversy about standards for the design and conduct of research. This controversy has been playing itself ...

Pew Research Center often collects data through nationally representative surveys, and we use focus groups to supplement those findings in interesting ways and inform the questionnaire design process ...

A critical issue for qualitative researchers, particularly in clinical research, is a lack of guidance to evaluate and produce methodologically rigorous qualitative publications. In the 1980s, Lincoln ...

The research design influences the number of subjects. Research targeting larger participation typically starts with one large study group with multiple subjects and also includes a follow-up ...