Introduction to Qualitative Research Qualitative research in psychology is rapidly emerging as an important focus for psychological research and theory. Although there is a long history of qualitative methods in psychology‚ it is only since the 1980s that qualitative methods have made significant inroads. Among the distinguishing features of qualitative research are its preferences for data rich in description‚ the belief that reality is constructed socially‚ and that reality is about interpretation
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Qualitative Versus Quantitative Research There has been a large amount of complex discussion and argument surrounding the topic of research methodology and the theory of how studies should push forward. Majority of this debate has centered on the issue of qualitative versus quantitative study. Different methods become popular at different social‚ political‚ historical and cultural times in our development‚ and‚ both methods have their strengths and weaknesses. The researcher and/or the culture
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QUANTITATIVE ARTICLE REVIEW Context-Sensitive Positive Behavior Supports for Young Children with Traumatic Brain Injury: A Second Replication Study EDUC 518 February 7‚ 2014 SUMMARY Traumatic brain injury or TBI as it is sometimes called is the injury of the brain that is caused by a powerful force outside of the body. Traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of death and disability in childhood (Kraus‚ 1995). As a result of TBI‚ many young children/students display negative behaviors
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Information sheet 15 Qualitative Research Introduction Qualitative research is becoming more widely valued and recognised in the health care research field. The importance of qualitative research was established in the early 20th Century as a form of inquiry for the study of human group life‚ particularly in the fields of sociology and anthropology. Qualitative research aims to generate further research and theories rather than to verify them. It relies on transforming information from observations
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discovered serious mental illness: in need of support to become resource persons in treatment and recovery” by (K.Norby‚ K.KJonsberg and J.K.Hummelvoll‚ 2009). I am going to look at the approach‚ methodology‚ the design‚ population sample‚ data collection method‚ ethical issues and how the data was analysed. I am then going to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the research. To evaluate this research‚ I am going to use the framework for critiquing health research by (Cadwell.k‚ Henshaw.L‚ and Taylor
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Capital Budgeting Methods for Corporate Project Selection In a 2001 Graham and Harvey survey of 392 chief financial officers (CFOs) asked “how frequently they used different capital budgeting methods?” Approximately 75% of the CFOs replied that they use net present value (NPV) or Internal Rate of Return (IRR) always or almost always (Smart‚ Megginson & Gitman‚ 2004‚ pg. 251). Projects are viewed as capital investments in the corporate world‚ and as such‚ are evaluated closely for their possible
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Qualitative Research Paper Shirley P. Davis EDD/581 July 14‚ 2014 Professor Elizabeth Ashley When researchers use qualitative methodologies‚ they are motivated to design their research on the basis of one of six research traditions: participatory action research (PAR)‚ phenomenology‚ ethnography‚ grounded theory‚ narratology‚ and consensual qualitative research (Hays & Wood‚ 2011). For the purpose of my action research project‚ I chose the PAR design primarily because the process requires participation
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A rational capital budgeting functionality should answer two major questions. First is that‚ whether one particular project is a good one? Second‚ if we get more than one available project opportunities‚ but we should choose only one of them‚ which one should be that “one”? In real life we very frequently come across with question like whether to pick up a lump some payment of retirement account accumulated during years or receiving monthly retirement pensions until the rest of our life. In this
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The author of this essay will critically appraise tow nursing articles. A qualitative paper published in the Journal of Advance Nursing (JAN) which will be referred as ‘article one’. A quantitative paper published in the Journal of Wound Care which will be referred as ‘article two’ in this essay. Both articles are wound care related. In order to examine the strength and weakness of the articles‚ the author of this essay will use a set of tools using a methodological analysis. Therefore demonstrate
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QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES TO SOCIAL RESEARCH Christina Hughes C.L.Hughes@warwick.ac.uk There has been widespread debate in recent years within many of the social sciences regarding the relative merits of quantitative and qualitative strategies for research. The positions taken by individual researchers vary considerably‚ from those who see the two strategies as entirely separate and based on alternative views of the world‚ to those who are happy to mix these strategies within
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