Qualitative Research: A Guide to Design and Implementation

By S. Merriam. 2009

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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How International Field Experiences Promote Cross-Cultural Awareness in Preservice Teachers through Experiential Learning: Findings from a Six-Year Collective Case Study (2012, neutral): “All 6 researchers coded the data and continued to intercode throughout the analysis to maintain reliability and internal validity through a continuous process of coanalysis (Merriam, 2009).”
Teacher and Peer Support for Young Adolescents’ Motivation, Engagement, and School Belonging (2015, methodology): “In this second, qualitative phase, we used a descriptive, interpretive “basic qualitative design” (Merriam, 2009) to gain a detailed understanding of the ways teachers and peers support adolescents’ motivation, engagement, and belonging.”
Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Data in Mixed Methods Research--Challenges and Benefits. (2016, background): “It focuses upon drawing meaning from the experiences and opinions of participants—it pinpoints “… meaning, purpose or reality” (paraphrase of Hiatt, 1986; in Harwell, n.d., p. 148; Cohen et al., 2011; Merriam, 2009).”
School-Based Experiential Outdoor Education (2017, neutral): “…observation and participants’ perspectives, the more flexible, naturalistic, information-rich, and illuminative qualitative phenomenological research methodology is utilized (Ballad & Bawalan, 2012; Goetz & Mahoney, 2012; Mack, Woodsong, MacQueen, Guest, & Namey, 2005; Merriam & Tisdell, 2016).”
The Facade of Fit in Faculty Search Processes (2020, positive): “A major strength of case study research is that it calls for triangulating multiple sources of data to construct findings (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016; Yin, 2017).”
The Components of Effective Professional Development Activities in terms of Teachers' Perspective (2014, methodology): “Throughout the data analysis process, the researcher was able to employ “rich, thick descriptions” and “adequate engagement in data collection” strategies (Merriam, 2009) in order to promote the reliability and validity of data analysis process.”
An examination of teachers’ strategies to foster student engagement in blended learning in higher education (2021, methodology): “In-depth In-depth data analysis and writing were performed through a recursive comparison process between data (transcripts and interviewer’s notes), coding, and interpretation, enabling the capture of recurring patterns of data (Merriam & Tisdell, 2015).”
An Exploration of Older Men's Social Lives and Well-Being in the Context of a Coffee Group (2017, methodology): “All data (including interview transcripts and field notes) were analyzed thematically using open and axial coding (Merriam, 2009).”
Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, and Turnover Intention of Online Teachers in the K-12 Setting (2016, positive): “The overall objective of the ATLAS.ti analysis is to identify patterns within the data that may serve as a basis for explaining the examined phenomena (Merriam, 2009).”
Applying the Master Narrative Framework to Gender Identity Development in Emerging Adulthood (2017, background): “Critical to a consensus process is creating a diverse interpretive community and triangulation between data and interpretation (Merriam, 2009).”