III - module 4

describes whether your study is qualitative or quantitative.

makes use of first person/textual/discursive in nature.

makes use of third person - past tense/researcher is not the one who determines the variables, but it is the subject itself.

A systematic subjective approach used to describe life experiences and give them meaning. To gain insight; explore the depth, richness, and complexity inherent in the phenomenon.

___ states to the whole approach that you decide on to add the different components of the study coherently and logically, thereby, ensuring you will effectively addess the research problem; it consitutes the blueprint for the collection, meausrement, and analysis of data. Note that your research problem determines the type of design you should use.

you immerse yourself in the target participants’ environment to understand the goals, cultures, challenges, motivations, and themes that emerge.

weaves together a sequence of events, usually from just one or two individuals to form a cohesive story.

is an appropriate qualitative method when you want to describe an event, activity, or phenomenon.

a way of explaining an organization, entity, company, or event which involves a deep understanding through multiple types of data sources.

An objective, systematic empirical investigation of observable phenomena through the use of computational techniques. It highlights numerical analysis of data hoping that the numbers yield unbiased results that can be generalized to some larger population and explain a particular observation.