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Week 1 – Assignment 1: Select the Appropriate Qualitative Research Tradition

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In the Week 1 assignments, you will consider, evaluate, and then choose between two selected qualitative research traditions that are appropriate within the qualitative method and relevant to your educational problem of inquiry. You will confirm your selected research design choice in Assignment 2.

Assignment Instructions:

1.      After review of the Week 1 Resources and Figure 1.1, select two relevant qualitative research designs that could be used to explore a focused educational problem of inquiry.

2.      Evaluate the strengths and challenges of both research designs and cite the scholarly research guides to support your evaluation.

3.      Summarize the benefits of both research designs to explore your specific educational problem of inquiry.

Length: 2-3 PowerPoint slides (2 additional slides for title and References)

References: Include a minimum of 3 scholarly research guides

Your slide presentation should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of your comparison between two selected qualitative research designs appropriate within the qualitative method and relevant to your research focus. Your presentation should reflect graduate-level writing and APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University's Academic Integrity Policy

Section 1: The Qualitative Method: Principles and Research Design

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Introduction

This advanced qualitative methods course is designed to advance your research skills to understand and use the conventions of qualitative research to explore an educational problem at the doctoral level. Educational practitioners are aware of the educational problems that exist within educational environments and practice, yet scholarly researchers address these problems using the accepted conventions of educational research to do so.

In qualitative educational research, the doctoral researcher identifies an educational problem from within the scholarly literature and decides a proper qualitative research design to explore the problem from a descriptive, exploratory, or explanatory approach (Suter, 2012). A specific construct or phenomenon is typically at the center of the exploration and may often involve the lived experiences of human subjects with the construct or phenomenon of focus. Conversely, in quantitative research, numerical data is operationalized as variables; while in qualitative research, phenomena or constructs are measured through qualitative data collection and analyzed through qualitative data analysis.