Summer 2017 555  Study Guide

What are the important points about:

• How qualitative research differs from quantitative
• Philosophical orientations of qualitative research
• Purpose statements
• Introductions
• Thinking about what literature to review
• Methods sections
• Results sections qualitative
• Conclusions
• Information that can be gleaned from a reference list
• Interviewing
• Observing
• Major types of qualitative research and how they differ
• Strategies for coding qualitative data
• Trustworthiness (validity) of qualitative research
• Survey bias
• Survey design
• Things to know in Excel