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.

Theory Into Practice, Vol. 51, No. 2, Qualitative Research in the 21st Century (Spring 2012), pp. 129-136 (8 pages) Practitioner—researchers are well-positioned to apply qualitative methods to the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...