What is the role of hypothesis in qualitative research, and when do you propose it?
What is the difference in the role of a hypothesis in quantitative research and in grounded theory?
Tag: Qualitative Research
Qualitative Research
Respond to the questions below by reviewing the article and identifying those elements (state the page number you found the element). As you discuss the researcher’s use of the element, make sure your discussion is properly supported by your textbook.
Your critique responses should reflect upon the following:
1. What type of qualitative approach did the researcher use? Provide a definition of the type of approach.
2. What type of sampling method did the researcher use? Is it appropriate for the study? Why or why not?
3. Discuss whether the data collection focused on human experiences.
4. How did the author address the protection of human subjects?
5. How did the researcher describe data saturation?
6. What procedure for collecting data did the researcher use?
7. Describe the strategies the researcher used to analyze the data.
8. How did the researcher address the following:
Credibility
Auditability
Fittingness
9. What is your cosmic question? (This is a question you ask your peers to respond to based on this week’s topic of Qualitative Research).
Qualitative research
Qualitative research is considered by some researchers to be less externally valid than quantitative research. Specifically, because of the nature of the data and the way the data is collected (conducting interviews to examine the participant’s beliefs about the world), the results that are obtained using this research approach may not apply (generalize) to other members of the population. Do you think that this a methodological or ethical problem? Why?