Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach provides researchers and students with a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. It shows how the components of design interact with each other, and provides a strategy for creating coherent and workable relationships among these design components, highlighting key design issues. Written in an informal, jargon-free style, the new Third Edition incorporates examples and hands-on exercises.
Chapter 1. A Model for Qualitative Research Design
Chapter 2. Goals: Why Are You Doing This Study?
Chapter 3. Conceptual Framework: What Do You Think Is Going On?
Chapter 4. Research Questions: What Do You Want to Understand?
Chapter 5. Methods: What Will You Actually Do?
Chapter 6. Validity: How Might You Be Wrong?
Chapter 7. Research Proposals: Presenting and Justifying a Qualitative Study
Appendix A. A Proposal for a Study of Medical School Teaching
Appendix B. A Proposal for a Study of Online Learning by Teachers
