In which type of qualitative research does a researcher strive to understand a person’s life
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Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.
After studying the introduction to this unit and completing the study activities, briefly compare the use of the research design employed in the study you selected to that of another qualitative design. In other words, what type of questions is each research design used to explore (for example, questions about the lived experience of a person experiencing a phenomenon, how to build a theory that is grounded in the data)? Summarize how the sampling, data collection, and data analysis procedures worked together to address the study’s research question or questions. The post should be written in your own words, not direct quotes from the articles. Incorporate material from the course text in a meaningful way.
Use your Counseling Research: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods text to read the following:
Chapter 10, “Grounded Theory Methodology,” pages 191–213.
Chapter 11, “Phenomenological Designs,” pages 215–231.
Chapter 12, “Narrative Designs,” pages 232–250.
Use the Capella library to read the following:
Keats’s 2009 article, “Multiple Text Analysis in Narrative Research: Visual, Written, and Spoken Stories of Experience,” from Qualitative Research, volume 9, issue 2, pages 181–195.
Moss, Gibson, and Dollarhide’s 2014 article, “Professional Identity Development: A Grounded Theory of Transformational Tasks of Counselors,” from Journal of Counseling and Development, volume 92, issue 1, pages 3–12
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Reference
American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author
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UNIT 6 CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING
Answer the multiple-choice questions.
1. You read about a study in which a researcher conducted in-depth interviews with nine women who are voluntarily childfree. Based on this interview data, the researcher constructed a description of what it is like to live this life. What qualitative research design was used?
Ethnography
Try again. Ethnography is a type of qualitative design that requires prolonged, intense involvement of the researcher in the community. The focus is on understanding a culture.
Case Study
Not quite. The purpose of the case study design is to understand one (or a few) people thoroughly. The focus is on the case as a bounded system, not on one particular aspect of the case. Also, case studies usually use documents and observations in addition to interview data for data collection.
Phenomenology
Correct! The purpose of phenomenology in this scenario is to construct a description of the subjective experience of being childfree. The focus is on understanding that experience, not everything there is to know about the participants.
Grounded Theory
Try again. Grounded theory is used to build a theory to explain a process. An example would be if interviews were conducted to find out how the women managed the consequences of societal perceptions of their choice. The focus is on building a theory, not on understanding the nature of the experience, which would be phenomenology.
2. Which of the following is NOT a qualitative research design?
Correlational
Correct! This is a quantitative research design.
Phenomenology
This is a qualitative design.
Narrative
This is a qualitative design.
Grounded Theory
This is a qualitative design.
3. In which type of qualitative research does a researcher strive to understand a person’s life by analyzing the oral and written stories of the participants?
Narrative
Correct. There are different traditions within narrative research, but they all have to do with how people use stories to understand their experiences.
Phenomenology
Not quite. Focus on the data being collected and analyzed: oral and written stories.
Grounded Theory
Try again. Focus on the purpose of the study: to understand a person, not to build a theory.
Case Study
Try again. Focus on the data being collected and analyzed: oral and written stories. Case studies rely on documents, observations and interviews.
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