Summaries for Chapter 5 of the NMQ (First Steps in Research - Second edition) handbook. These notes are ideal for students studying for their Honours degree in Education (BEdHons). I got 98% for this module using these notes and still use them in my PhD research today.
NMQ 745 Chapter 5 – Qualitative research design and data-gathering techniques
5.2 QUALITATIVE RESEARCH DESIGNS
• a research design is n plan or strategy the moves from the underlaying philosophical
assumptions
• to specify the selection of participants
• the data gathering methods to be used and the data analysis to be done
• choice of research design is based on researchers, ontological and epistemological
perspective
• research skills and practices
• influences the way in which the collect data
An interactive model of research design
• essential feature-it treats research design holistically and as a real entity, not simply an
abstraction plan
Conceptual
Goals framework
Research
questions
Methods Validity
1. Research questions
One thing that binds all aspects together.
It guides and directs the study and, in the end,
Every component of the design should be aimed at answering the research question.
Your research question should be intellectually rich and challenging
What, specifically, do you want to learn or understand by doing this study?
What questions will your research attempt to answer?
Be aware of the omissions, silence or gaps in the literature that raise important research
questions
2. Goals (aims)
your research questions should inform the aims of the study
the aims are not simply a rephrasing of the question in terms of the answer but it looks beyond
the superficial to the significance of the study
why is your study worth doing?
3.Conceptual framework
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