Monday, February 11, 2013

Creswell Chapter Summaries

Use this thread to post your chapter summaries for the Creswell reading. Highlight at least five main points from the reading.

6 comments:

  1. Chapter 8

    Point 1
    See p. 181 Analytic Strategies
    1. Sketching ideas
    2. Taking notes
    3. Summarizing field notes
    4. Working with words
    5. Identifying codes
    6. Reducing codes to themes
    7. Counting frequency of codes
    8. relating categories
    9. Relating categories to analytic frameworks in literature
    10. Creating a point of view
    11. Displaying the data

    Point 2
    Analyzing data is like a spiral

    Point 3
    In vivo codes--exact codes used by participants

    Point 4
    Computer Programs help store and organize data

    Point 5
    Data must be visually represented

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  2. Chapter 4- Five Qualitative Approaches to Inquiry
    Narrative-
    • Explores the life of the individual
    • Usually primarily interviews and documents
    • Analyzing data for stories, “restorying” stories, and developing themes
    Phenomenology
    • Understanding the experience
    • Using primarily individuals, although documents, observations, and art may also be considered
    • Describing the “essence” of the experience
    Grounded Theory
    • Developing a theory grounded in data from the field
    • Using primarily interviews with 20-60 individuals
    • Using coding and generates a theory that can be illustrated
    Ethnography
    • Describing and interpreting a culture-sharing group
    • Uses observations, interviews
    • Describing how a culture-sharing group works
    Case Study
    • In-depth description of an analysis of a case or multiple cases
    • Uses interviews, observations, documents, and artifacts
    • Developing a detailed analysis of one or more cases

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  3. Chapter 5
    -5 articles to demonstrate
    -differences among the approaches (focus of study)
    -suggestions for selecting an approach

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  4. The research problem statement- provides a rationale or need for study-begins the qualitative study. It frames in the opening paragraph.

    Components of a good intro: 1) begins with sentences of interest, 2) the research problem, 3) summarize recent evidence, 4) indicate current literature, 5) discuss how audience can profit

    Purpose statement is the major objective or road map for the study.

    Central question is the over arching question (what, how and why) and is broken up into sub-questions for further inquiry.

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  5. Chapter 3 Designing a Qualitative Study

    1. Starts with broad assumptions of inquiry

    2. Asking several open-ended research questions

    3. Gather and code data

    4. Organize into themes and categories

    5. Write the narrative and tell the story!

    Michael B. and Claire

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  6. this book is good. I have learned about research methods

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