As both a consumer of research and a researcher, you should be able to - Describe qualitative research and its assumptions
- Identify examples of qualitative research
- Explain analytic induction
- Explain the Interaction Model for Research Design used for qualitative research
- Explain the role of a research question in qualitative research
- Assess the effectiveness of research questions in qualitative research
- Describe different ways meaning is derived from data in qualitative research
- Distinguish among the different levels of data in qualitative research
- Explain the advantages and disadvantages of qualitative research
- Describe issues of reliability and validity that must be addressed in qualitative research
- Understand the key differences and similarities between quantitative and qualitative research
- Describe how both quantitative and qualitative methodologies can address the same research issue
- Explain how to choose between quantitative and qualitative methodologies
- Describe the different types of triangulation and their purpose in research
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