A Qualitative Research Plan
In this Application, you will begin to work on your Qualitative Research Plan, which is your Final Project for this course and will be due in Week 11. You will start by determining the research problem, purpose, and questions for your research plan.
To prepare for this Application:
· Review the following readings for this week:
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o Chapter 6 in Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design: Choosing Among the Five Approaches
o Chapter 4 in Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach
o Pages 25–28 of Chapter 2 in Qualitative Data Analysis: A Methods Source book
o “Final Project: Developing a Qualitative Research Plan” handout
· Formulate a research problem, purpose, and questions for the Final Project for this course. How would you defend your choices?
The assignment:
· In a 1- to 2-page paper, formulate a research problem, purpose, and questions for the Final Project for this course and defend your choices.( Attempting to find out the effects of bundle pay system on healthcare providers in regards to service and quality on post care patients.)
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Note: Based on the feedback you receive on this assignment, you may need to change your topic or research focus and direction as needed.
Required Resources
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Course
Text: Maxwell, J. A. (2005). Applied
Social Research Methods Series: Vol. 41. Qualitative research design: An
interactive approach (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
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o Chapter 1, “A Model for Qualitative Research Design”
o Chapter 2, “Goals: Why Are You Doing This Study?”
o Chapter 4, “Research Questions: What Do You Want to
Understand?”
Chapter 1 gives an introduction
and provides a model for qualitative research design. Chapter 2 explains the
personal, practical, and intellectual goals that qualitative research can help
you achieve. Chapter 4 describes the function of research questions and other
kinds of questions, including generic, particularistic, instrumentalist,
realist, variance, and process questions.
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Course
Text: Miles, M. B., Huberman,
A. M., & Saldana, J.(2014). Qualitative data analysis: A Methods
sourcebook (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
o Chapter 1, “Introduction 3-16”
o Chapter 2, “Research Design and Management,” pp. 25–2 8
Chapter 1 provides an overview
of qualitative research, including varieties and recurring features of
qualitative research, and describes three approaches to analyzing qualitative
data. The excerpt from Chapter 2 outlines the process of formulating research
questions.
· Course Text: Creswell, J. W. (2007). Qualitative inquiry & research design: Choosing among five approaches (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
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o Chapter 4, “Five Qualitative Approaches to Inquiry”
o Chapter 6, “Introducing and Focusing the Study”
In Chapter 4, you will learn about and compare the five qualitative approaches
to inquiry: narrative research, phenomenological research, grounded theory
research, ethnographic research, and case study research. In Chapter 6, you
will learn how to introduce and focus your research study by stating the
research problem, the purpose statement, and the research questions.
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Course
Text:Patton, M. Q. (2015). Qualitative research &
evaluation methods (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publications.
o Chapter 2, “Strategic Themes in Qualitative Inquiry”
This chapter describes several
design strategies and analysis strategies in qualitative inquiry.
· Handouts
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o Final Project: Developing a Qualitative Research Plan (Word
document)
This handout will guide you in completing your Final Project for this course,
in which you will develop a qualitative research plan. The Final Project is due
in Week 11.
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