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Peer reviewedRichards, Lyn; Richards, Tom – Qualitative Health Research, 1991
Discusses the potential impact of computers in qualitative health research. Describes the original goals, design, and implementation of NUDIST, a qualitative computing software. Argues for evaluation of the impact of computer techniques and for an opening of debate among program developers and users to address the purposes and power of computing…
Descriptors: Computer Software Evaluation, Content Analysis, Data Analysis, Higher Education
Download full textTerenzini, Patrick T.; Pascarella, Ernest T. – 1990
A review of more than 3,000 books, monographs, journal articles, papers and other reports was conducted to discover what kinds of design, measurement, and analytical lessons have been learned as a result of the enormous volume of college-impact-on-student studies that have been published in the last 20 years and to determine how these lessons…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Literature Reviews, Qualitative Research
Peer reviewedCrowley, E. Paula – Exceptionality, 1995
Guidelines for the implementation of qualitative methods in special education research are offered, addressing rigor, sample selection, data collection, and data management/analysis. Five possible pitfalls are identified, including the quantitative-qualitative methods debate, premature data collection, the tendency to use a linear procedural…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Disabilities, Educational Research
Dudley-Marling, Curt; Rhodes, Lynn K. – Canadian Journal of English Language Arts, 1989
Reflects on some of the problems encountered in the authors' experimental approach to a study of reading comprehension. Discusses the limitations of experimental research, and presents an alternative to experimental or quantitative research, focusing on the relationship between teachers and learners as they interact in classrooms. (MM)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Qualitative Research
Direct linkConrad, Clifton F., Ed.; Serlin, Ronald C., Ed. – SAGE Publications (CA), 2005
This guide is designed to encourage students, faculty, and policymakers to become more self-reflective in their inquiry. Placing the pursuit of ideas at the epicenter of research, K-12 and higher education scholars advance ideas for enhancing educational inquiry, relying extensively on narratives, vignettes, and examples of key episodes in…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Research Problems, Higher Education, Research Design
Graue, M. Elizabeth; Walsh, Daniel J.; Ceglowski, Deborah; Dyson, Anne Hass; Fernie, David E.; Kantor, Rebecca; Leavitt, Robin Lynn; Miller, Peggy J.; Ting, Hsueh-Yin – 1998
Studying or finding out about children is exceptionally difficult--intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Physical, social, cognitive, and political distances between adult and the child make their relationship very different from the relationships among adults. This book explains the art and science of doing qualitative research involving…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Case Studies, Children, Context Effect
