U10A1-68 - Qualitative Research Plan - ***TUTOR FOLLOW ALL INSTRUCTIONS AS OUTLINED TO COMPLETE THIS WORK. READ ATTACHMENTS.

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APPLICATION EXERCISES

1. Locate a published qualitative study on a subject of interest to you. How does the study address and establish the credibility of qualitative inquiry? Use Exhibits 9.4 and 9.15 to review and critique how credibility is addressed in the study you’ve chosen. What questions are left unanswered in the study you’re reviewing that, from your perspective, if answered, would enhance credibility?

2. Locate a study that highlights use of mixed methods. What was the nature of the mix? What rationale was used for mixing methods? To what extent was triangulation an explicit justification for mixing methods? How integrated was the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data? Based on your review, what are the strengths and weaknesses of the mixed-methods design and analysis you reviewed.

3. Exhibit 9.11 (pp. 707–709) provides the framework for establishing the credibility of a qualitative inquirer. If you have conducted a qualitative study, or been part of one, complete that table using your own experience (fill in the column for yourself that reports Nora Murphy’s experiences, perspectives, reactions, and competence in Exhibit 9.11). If you haven’t done a qualitative study, imagine one and complete the table for a qualitative scenario that you construct. The purpose is to practice being reflexive and addressing inquirer credibility.

4. The discussion on objectivity considers a number of alternative ways of describing an inquirer’s stance and philosophy (pp. 723–728). What is your preferred terminology? Write a statement describing your paradigm stance, a statement that you could give someone who was considering funding you to do a qualitative study. Describe a scenario or situation where you would need to explain your stance—and then do so. (You don’t have to be limited to the language options discussed here.)

5. a.  As an exercise in distinguishing quality criteria frameworks, try matching the three umpires’ perspectives (p. 683) to the frameworks in Exhibit 9.7 (pp. 680–881). Explain your choices.

b. What would a systems-oriented umpire say about umpiring? (Explain). c. What would an artistic-evocative-oriented umpire say about umpiring (Explain). c. What would a critical change umpire say?

6. (Advanced application) On the next page is a description of an edited volume of qualitative inquiries into the nature of family. Use the criteria for autoethnography in Chapter 3 (pp. 102–104) and the sets of criteria in Exhibit 9.7. Create your own set of 10 criteria for judging the methodological quality of this book by selecting criteria that seem especially relevant given the description of the book’s approach. Use this example to discuss the nature of quality criteria in judging the quality of qualitative inquiries.

From On (Writing) Families: Autoethnographies of Presence and Absence, Love and Loss (Wyatt & Adams, 2014):

Who are we with—and without—families? How do we relate as children to our parents, as parents to our children? How are parent–child relationships—and familial relationships in general—made and (not) maintained?

Informed by narrative, performance studies, poststructuralism, critical theory, and queer theory, contributors to this collection use autoethnography—a method that uses the personal to examine the cultural—to interrogate these questions. The essays write about/around issues of interpersonal distance and closeness, gratitude and disdain, courage and fear, doubt and certainty, openness and secrecy, remembering and forgetting, accountability and forgiveness, life and death.

Throughout, family relationships are framed as relationships that inspire and inform, bind and scar—relationships replete with presence and absence, love and loss (p. 1).

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7. (Advanced application) Martin Rees, astronomer, former Master of Trinity College, and ex-president of the Royal Society of Astronomy said, “Ultimately, I don’t think there’s anything special in the scientific method that goes beyond what a detective does” (quoted by Morris, 2014). Imagine that you are using this quotation to support the credibility of qualitative inquiry. Discuss how this quotation applies to each of the four dimensions of credibility discussed in this chapter (see Exhibit 9.15, p. 722)