ERIC Number: EJ973033
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Jan
Pages: 62
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ISSN: ISSN-1052-0147
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An Exemplar for Teaching and Learning Qualitative Research
Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J.; Leech, Nancy L.; Slate, John R.; Stark, Marcella; Sharma, Bipin; Frels, Rebecca; Harris, Kristin; Combs, Julie P.
Qualitative Report, v17 n1 p16-77 Jan 2012
In this article, we outline a course wherein the instructors teach students how to conduct rigorous qualitative research. We discuss the four major distinct, but overlapping, phases of the course: conceptual/theoretical, technical, applied, and emergent scholar. Students write several qualitative reports, called qualitative notebooks, which involve data that they collect (via three different types of interviews), analyze (using nine qualitative analysis techniques via qualitative software), and interpret. Each notebook is edited by the instructors to help them improve the quality of subsequent notebook reports. Finally, we advocate asking students who have previously taken this course to team-teach future courses. We hope that our exemplar for teaching and learning qualitative research will be useful for teachers and students alike. (Contains 2 figures and 13 tables.)
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Researchers, Computer Software, Data Analysis, Research Design, Teachers, Epistemology, Cooperative Learning, Discourse Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Interviews
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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