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Preface | |
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About the Author | |
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A Model for Qualitative Research Design | |
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The Organization of This Book | |
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The Exercises in This Book | |
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Notes | |
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Goals: Why Are You Doing This Study? | |
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Personal, Practical, and Intellectual Goals | |
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What Goals Can Qualitative Research Help You Achieve? | |
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Notes | |
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Conceptual Framework: What Do You Think Is Going On? | |
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The Value (and Pitfalls) of Research Paradigms | |
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Experiential Knowledge | |
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Prior Theory and Research | |
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The Uses of Existing Theory | |
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Concept Maps | |
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Other Uses of Existing Research | |
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Pilot and Exploratory Studies | |
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Thought Experiments | |
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Notes | |
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Research Questions: What Do You Want to Understand? | |
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The Functions of Research Questions | |
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Research Questions and Other Kinds of Questions | |
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Research Hypotheses in Qualitative Designs | |
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General Questions and Particular Questions | |
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Instrumentalist Questions and Realist Questions | |
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Variance Questions and Process Questions | |
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Developing Research Questions | |
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Methods: What Will You Actually Do? | |
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More and Less Structured Approaches | |
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Negotiating Research Relationships | |
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Site and Participant Selection | |
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Decisions About Data Collection | |
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The Relationship Between Research Questions and Data Collections Methods | |
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Using Multiple Data Collection Methods | |
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Decisions About Data Analysis | |
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Strategies for Qualitative Data Analysis | |
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Computers and Qualitative Data Analysis | |
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Linking Methods and Questions | |
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Notes | |
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Validity: How Might You Be Wrong? | |
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The Concept of Validity | |
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Two Specific Validity Threats: Bias and Reactivity | |
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Researcher Bias | |
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Reactivity | |
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Validity Tests: A Checklist | |
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Generalization in Qualitative Research | |
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Notes | |
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Research Proposals: Presenting and Justifying a Qualitative Study | |
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The Purpose of a Proposal | |
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The Proposal as an Argument | |
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The Relationship Between Your Research Design and Your Proposal Argument | |
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A Model for Proposal Structure | |
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Notes | |
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A Proposal for a Study of Medical School Teaching | |
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A Proposal for a Study of Online Learning by Teachers | |
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References | |
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Index | |