Qualitative research design : an interactive approach /
Maxwell, Joseph Alex,
Qualitative research design : an interactive approach / Joseph A. Maxwell. - 2nd ed. - Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2005. - xiv, 174 p.ill. : 23 cm. - Applied social research methods series ; no. 41 .
1. A Model for Qualitative Research Design
EXAMPLE 1.1: The Evolution of a Research Design
The Organization of This Book
The Exercises in This Book
Notes
2. Goals: Why Are You Doing This Study?
Personal, Practical, and Intellectual Goals
EXAMPLE 2.1: Using Personal Experience
to Choose a Dissertation Topic
EXAMPLE 2.2: The Importance of Personal
Values and Identity
What Goals Can Qualitative Research Help You Achieve?
EXAMPLE 2.3: Deciding on a Dissertation Topic
Exercise 2.1: Researcher Identity Memo
EXAMPLE 2.4: Researcher Identity Memo for a
Study of Educational Reform in Bolivia
Note
3. Conceptual Framework: What Do You Think Is Going On?
Connecting With a Research Paradigm
Experiential Knowledge
EXAMPLE 3.1: Identity Memo on Diversity
EXAMPLE 3.2: How One Researcher Used Her
Personal Experience to Refocus Her Research Problem
Prior Theory and Research
EXAMPLE 3.3: Using Existing Theory
Concept Maps
Exercise 3.1: Creating a Concept Map for Your Study
Other Uses of Existing Research
Pilot and Exploratory Studies
EXAMPLE 3.4: How a Student Used a Pilot
Study to Help Design Her Dissertation Research
Thought Experiments
EXAMPLE 3.5: Using a Thought Experiment
to Develop a Theory of the Persistence of Illiteracy
Exercise 3.2: Creating a Model of the
Development of Friendship Patterns
Notes
4. Research Questions: What Do You Want to Understand?
EXAMPLE 4.1: The Development of Research Questions
The Functions of Research Questions
Research Questions and Other Kinds of Questions
Research Hypotheses in Qualitative Designs
Generic Questions and Particularistic Questions
Instrumentalist Questions and Realist Questions
Variance Questions and Process Questions
Developing Research Questions
Exercise 4.1: Developing Your Research Questions
5. Methods: What Will You Actually Do?
Structured and Unstructured Approaches
Negotiating Research Relationships
EXAMPLE 5.1: Negotiating Relationships
in a Practitioner Research Study
Exercise 5.1: Reflecting on Your Research Relationships
Site and Participant Selection
Decisions About Data Collection
Decisions About Data Analysis
Strategies for Qualitative Data Analysis
EXAMPLE 5.2: A Mismatch Between
Questions and Analysis
Linking Methods and Questions
Exercise 5.2: Questions and Methods Matrix
Notes
6. Validity: How Might You Be Wrong?
The Concept of Validity
Two Specific Validity Threats: Bias and Reactivity
Validity Tests: A Checklist
Exercise 6.1: Identifying and
Dealing With Validity Threats
Generalization in Qualitative Research
Notes
7. Research Proposals: Presenting
and Justifying a Qualitative Study
The Purpose of a Proposal
The Proposal as an Argument
The Relfitionship Between Research
Design and Proposal Argument
A Model for Proposal Structure
EXAMPLE 7.1: The Argument of a Dissertation
Proposal
EXAMPLE 7.2: An Outline of a Dissertation
Proposal Argument1. A Model for Qualitative Research Design
EXAMPLE 1.1: The Evolution of a Research Design
The Organization of This Book
The Exercises in This Book
Notes
2. Goals: Why Are You Doing This Study?
Personal, Practical, and Intellectual Goals
EXAMPLE 2.1: Using Personal Experience
to Choose a Dissertation Topic
EXAMPLE 2.2: The Importance of Personal
Values and Identity
What Goals Can Qualitative Research Help You Achieve?
EXAMPLE 2.3: Deciding on a Dissertation Topic
Exercise 2.1: Researcher Identity Memo
EXAMPLE 2.4: Researcher Identity Memo for a
Study of Educational Reform in Bolivia
Note
3. Conceptual Framework: What Do You Think Is Going On?
Connecting With a Research Paradigm
Experiential Knowledge
EXAMPLE 3.1: Identity Memo on Diversity
EXAMPLE 3.2: How One Researcher Used Her
Personal Experience to Refocus Her Research Problem
Prior Theory and Research
EXAMPLE 3.3: Using Existing Theory
Concept Maps
Exercise 3.1: Creating a Concept Map for Your Study
Other Uses of Existing Research
Pilot and Exploratory Studies
EXAMPLE 3.4: How a Student Used a Pilot
Study to Help Design Her Dissertation Research
Thought Experiments
EXAMPLE 3.5: Using a Thought Experiment
to Develop a Theory of the Persistence of Illiteracy
Exercise 3.2: Creating a Model of the
Development of Friendship Patterns
Notes
4. Research Questions: What Do You Want to Understand?
EXAMPLE 4.1: The Development of Research Questions
The Functions of Research Questions
Research Questions and Other Kinds of Questions
Research Hypotheses in Qualitative Designs
Generic Questions and Particularistic Questions
Instrumentalist Questions and Realist Questions
Variance Questions and Process Questions
Developing Research Questions
Exercise 4.1: Developing Your Research Questions
5. Methods: What Will You Actually Do?
Structured and Unstructured Approaches
Negotiating Research Relationships
EXAMPLE 5.1: Negotiating Relationships
in a Practitioner Research Study
Exercise 5.1: Reflecting on Your Research Relationships
Site and Participant Selection
Decisions About Data Collection
Decisions About Data Analysis
Strategies for Qualitative Data Analysis
EXAMPLE 5.2: A Mismatch Between
Questions and Analysis
Linking Methods and Questions
Exercise 5.2: Questions and Methods Matrix
Notes
6. Validity: How Might You Be Wrong?
The Concept of Validity
Two Specific Validity Threats: Bias and Reactivity
Validity Tests: A Checklist
Exercise 6.1: Identifying and
Dealing With Validity Threats
Generalization in Qualitative Research
Notes
7. Research Proposals: Presenting
and Justifying a Qualitative Study
The Purpose of a Proposal
The Proposal as an Argument
The Relfitionship Between Research
Design and Proposal Argument
A Model for Proposal Structure
EXAMPLE 7.1: The Argument of a Dissertation
Proposal
EXAMPLE 7.2: An Outline of a Dissertation
Proposal Argument
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Qualitative research design : an interactive approach / Joseph A. Maxwell. - 2nd ed. - Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2005. - xiv, 174 p.ill. : 23 cm. - Applied social research methods series ; no. 41 .
1. A Model for Qualitative Research Design
EXAMPLE 1.1: The Evolution of a Research Design
The Organization of This Book
The Exercises in This Book
Notes
2. Goals: Why Are You Doing This Study?
Personal, Practical, and Intellectual Goals
EXAMPLE 2.1: Using Personal Experience
to Choose a Dissertation Topic
EXAMPLE 2.2: The Importance of Personal
Values and Identity
What Goals Can Qualitative Research Help You Achieve?
EXAMPLE 2.3: Deciding on a Dissertation Topic
Exercise 2.1: Researcher Identity Memo
EXAMPLE 2.4: Researcher Identity Memo for a
Study of Educational Reform in Bolivia
Note
3. Conceptual Framework: What Do You Think Is Going On?
Connecting With a Research Paradigm
Experiential Knowledge
EXAMPLE 3.1: Identity Memo on Diversity
EXAMPLE 3.2: How One Researcher Used Her
Personal Experience to Refocus Her Research Problem
Prior Theory and Research
EXAMPLE 3.3: Using Existing Theory
Concept Maps
Exercise 3.1: Creating a Concept Map for Your Study
Other Uses of Existing Research
Pilot and Exploratory Studies
EXAMPLE 3.4: How a Student Used a Pilot
Study to Help Design Her Dissertation Research
Thought Experiments
EXAMPLE 3.5: Using a Thought Experiment
to Develop a Theory of the Persistence of Illiteracy
Exercise 3.2: Creating a Model of the
Development of Friendship Patterns
Notes
4. Research Questions: What Do You Want to Understand?
EXAMPLE 4.1: The Development of Research Questions
The Functions of Research Questions
Research Questions and Other Kinds of Questions
Research Hypotheses in Qualitative Designs
Generic Questions and Particularistic Questions
Instrumentalist Questions and Realist Questions
Variance Questions and Process Questions
Developing Research Questions
Exercise 4.1: Developing Your Research Questions
5. Methods: What Will You Actually Do?
Structured and Unstructured Approaches
Negotiating Research Relationships
EXAMPLE 5.1: Negotiating Relationships
in a Practitioner Research Study
Exercise 5.1: Reflecting on Your Research Relationships
Site and Participant Selection
Decisions About Data Collection
Decisions About Data Analysis
Strategies for Qualitative Data Analysis
EXAMPLE 5.2: A Mismatch Between
Questions and Analysis
Linking Methods and Questions
Exercise 5.2: Questions and Methods Matrix
Notes
6. Validity: How Might You Be Wrong?
The Concept of Validity
Two Specific Validity Threats: Bias and Reactivity
Validity Tests: A Checklist
Exercise 6.1: Identifying and
Dealing With Validity Threats
Generalization in Qualitative Research
Notes
7. Research Proposals: Presenting
and Justifying a Qualitative Study
The Purpose of a Proposal
The Proposal as an Argument
The Relfitionship Between Research
Design and Proposal Argument
A Model for Proposal Structure
EXAMPLE 7.1: The Argument of a Dissertation
Proposal
EXAMPLE 7.2: An Outline of a Dissertation
Proposal Argument1. A Model for Qualitative Research Design
EXAMPLE 1.1: The Evolution of a Research Design
The Organization of This Book
The Exercises in This Book
Notes
2. Goals: Why Are You Doing This Study?
Personal, Practical, and Intellectual Goals
EXAMPLE 2.1: Using Personal Experience
to Choose a Dissertation Topic
EXAMPLE 2.2: The Importance of Personal
Values and Identity
What Goals Can Qualitative Research Help You Achieve?
EXAMPLE 2.3: Deciding on a Dissertation Topic
Exercise 2.1: Researcher Identity Memo
EXAMPLE 2.4: Researcher Identity Memo for a
Study of Educational Reform in Bolivia
Note
3. Conceptual Framework: What Do You Think Is Going On?
Connecting With a Research Paradigm
Experiential Knowledge
EXAMPLE 3.1: Identity Memo on Diversity
EXAMPLE 3.2: How One Researcher Used Her
Personal Experience to Refocus Her Research Problem
Prior Theory and Research
EXAMPLE 3.3: Using Existing Theory
Concept Maps
Exercise 3.1: Creating a Concept Map for Your Study
Other Uses of Existing Research
Pilot and Exploratory Studies
EXAMPLE 3.4: How a Student Used a Pilot
Study to Help Design Her Dissertation Research
Thought Experiments
EXAMPLE 3.5: Using a Thought Experiment
to Develop a Theory of the Persistence of Illiteracy
Exercise 3.2: Creating a Model of the
Development of Friendship Patterns
Notes
4. Research Questions: What Do You Want to Understand?
EXAMPLE 4.1: The Development of Research Questions
The Functions of Research Questions
Research Questions and Other Kinds of Questions
Research Hypotheses in Qualitative Designs
Generic Questions and Particularistic Questions
Instrumentalist Questions and Realist Questions
Variance Questions and Process Questions
Developing Research Questions
Exercise 4.1: Developing Your Research Questions
5. Methods: What Will You Actually Do?
Structured and Unstructured Approaches
Negotiating Research Relationships
EXAMPLE 5.1: Negotiating Relationships
in a Practitioner Research Study
Exercise 5.1: Reflecting on Your Research Relationships
Site and Participant Selection
Decisions About Data Collection
Decisions About Data Analysis
Strategies for Qualitative Data Analysis
EXAMPLE 5.2: A Mismatch Between
Questions and Analysis
Linking Methods and Questions
Exercise 5.2: Questions and Methods Matrix
Notes
6. Validity: How Might You Be Wrong?
The Concept of Validity
Two Specific Validity Threats: Bias and Reactivity
Validity Tests: A Checklist
Exercise 6.1: Identifying and
Dealing With Validity Threats
Generalization in Qualitative Research
Notes
7. Research Proposals: Presenting
and Justifying a Qualitative Study
The Purpose of a Proposal
The Proposal as an Argument
The Relfitionship Between Research
Design and Proposal Argument
A Model for Proposal Structure
EXAMPLE 7.1: The Argument of a Dissertation
Proposal
EXAMPLE 7.2: An Outline of a Dissertation
Proposal Argument
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