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 * October 24: Qualitative Research Designs**
 * **CLASSWORK** || **HOMEWORK** ||
 * ** Slides from Class FA 2017 **

Scanned in Handouts (used in previous semesters)



Qualitative Methods Class Video (from 2016)

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 * Key insights, surprises/realizations, and questions **
 * sampling - Creswell, p. 436
 * validity and trustworthiness (see handout)
 * [|Kristopher Williams](dissertation with great examples of trustworthiness)
 * validity and [|reflexivity]: The Value of Reflexivity
 * reliability
 * generalizability vs. transferability
 * ethics

**Yin Case Study Research** (other studies and your own idea) >
 * Two-Column Field Note Examples ([|One])
 * Field Notes Template for Descriptive and Analytic Notes

Extra information for qualitative research: >> >> >>
 * ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR QUALITATIVE INQUIRY (useful for your proposal and eventual dissertation)
 * Content Analysis of Policy in Higher Education: [|Analysis of high performing academic departments] (John? Michael?)
 * **Qualitative coding schemes / codebooks (you can ask the researcher for these)**
 * Samples from Julie
 * **Relevance Coding Book** (student relevance)
 * [|Quantitative data on slaves and indentured servants]
 * [|Developing theory driven and data-driven codebooks]
 * [|Codebook for Analysis of Media Frames]
 * **[|Laird Dissertation Online Textbook]**
 * Overview and Example of Phenomenology Study: [[file:Creswell Reimen Phenomenology.pdf]] ||

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS - COMPLETE FOR HOMEWORK - DUE Nov. 7

NEXT WEEK: Tuesday Nov. 7 (Meet at 4:00 in Green Hall, Great Room 2nd Floor for Leadership Scholar Lecture by Dr. Gogue) - I think the lecture begins at 4:15; we will have class after)

Please download and read this BEFORE you read the following texts. Read in the sequence suggested and use the reading guide to take notes. Bring your notes and questions to class next week and we will discuss.
 * READING GUIDE #7: Experimental Designs**


 * 1. READ:**
 * Fraenkel, Wallen & Hyung, Ch. 13 (Experimental Research)
 * Creswell, Ch. 8 Quantitative Methods

**2. COMPLETE Worksheet 6 Sampling Plan** for your study (see your Google Docs page)

**3. Draft pieces of your proposal using the Roadmap Template below-** fill in as much as possible - typed or written >
 * Don't include all of the narrative, just key statements and fill in the tables to look for the logic across the various pieces
 * Additional resources to help prepare for YOUR RESEARCH PROPOSAL

4. **Get started on your research critique** (due November 14)


 * Look at possible sections to critique in the document at the end of your syllabus to get you thinking
 * Use examples at end of each methods chapter in Frankel text for extra ideas


 * FROM PREVIOUS SEMESTERS:**
 * SKIM US Department of Education. (2004). [|Identifying and Implementing Educational Practices Supported By Rigorous Evidence: A User Friendly Guide] . ||