Discusses how to analyze qualitative data, presenting rules for unbiased data analysis, describing how to think about analysis, and explaining the five steps of doing the analysis: tidying up, finding items, creating stable sets of items, creating patterns, and assembling structures. The paper concludes by discussing the importance of making sure…

Qualitative researchers engage in reflexivity because they have reason to believe that good data result. Reflexivity enables researchers to untangle personal and theoretical commitments and scrutinize ethics and epistemology. Researcher reflexivity and researcher writing form an important and close connection. Reflexivity produces good data and,…

Suggests why qualitative research is frequently neither discussed nor used by the broad public, considering five barriers to making research more accessible, discussing how to make it more germane to problems faced by diverse groups in their everyday lives, and offering constructive ways to make qualitative research findings more accessible to the…

Examined the transition from other-regulation to self-regulation by studying correlational problem solving among 10 secondary school students individually tutored in problem solving. Quantitative discourse analysis supported the idea of a transition from other to self-regulation and qualitative analysis supported the idea of assimilation of the…

Utilizes naturalistic inquiry to interview Anne, a former assistant dean for an academic division at an ivy league school. Anne discusses the influence that the 1985 publication of Richard Moll's "The Public Ivys" has had on private higher education and on her campus in particular. (MKA)

Examines how women in mid-level leadership positions understand themselves as leaders. Explores the women's perceptions of how they function as leaders, and compares them to the generic notions of leadership, shaped by male experience, found in the current literature. (MKA)

Presents selected literature that exemplifies (in theory and in practice) four methodological frameworks that have found wide application in qualitative studies: symbolic interactionism, phenomenological description, constructivist hermeneutics, and critical studies. (Author/LRW)

Focuses on the use of cultural analysis, or the ethnographic approach, as a qualitative research methodology to study an academic computing center. The study was conducted to understand the culture of computing professionals and to assist librarians in developing ways in which the two groups of professionals can work together. (Author/LRW)

Underscores the need for teaching marketing research skills at the secondary level and shows how marketing research fits into marketing education. Provides an example of how to use the pyramid approach to research, which involves review of secondary sources, key informant interviews, focus groups, and quantitative research. (Author/JOW)

A qualitative methodology was used to compare specific experiences and ecological factors that 40 mothers perceived as influencing their expectations for their adolescents (20 with severe disabilities and 20 with no disabilities). Both groups of mothers identified many of the same factors as influencing their expectations. Children's personalities…

Critiques Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot's and Jessica Hoffmann Davis' work, "The Art and Science of Portraiture," from a postmodern perspective, critically examining assumptions and methods of portraiture, questioning the portraitist's authority in arbitrarily and unilaterally creating portraits, and suggesting that the problem with portraiture as a…

Examines the ubiquitous discussion of academic change, the paucity of ethnographic and qualitative research on the culture of higher education, and the need for ethnographic studies of professors, administrators, trustees, and students in an era of reform. Explains that ethnographic studies are the foundation from which other qualitative…

Because true diversity challenges dominant discourses, those in power attempt to assimilate competing discourses in the name of diversity. An example is the judging of qualitative research proposals by the rules of quantitative research, which inevitably disadvantages qualitative research. (Contains 21 references. Includes commentary by Dawn…

One major issue in the field of mathematics education is what type or types of research should play the critical role. Describes major research categories and applications, and elaborates on the future of mathematics education research toward consensus and rapprochement in this area. (Contains 26 references.) (ASK)

Traces the development of qualitative methodology to the Chicago School of sociologists in the 1920s. Distinguishes between qualitative methods and qualitative methodology and between anthropological and sociological approaches. Expresses concern that some types of research may co-opt the qualitative label and replace ethnography. (Author/SK)