QBRDM #6

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The feedback process consisted of a four-part summary (four-parts listed below), a few short, location-specific balloon-comments found within the margins of the text, and the highlighting of grammar, punctuation, or APA styling errors found within the text. Make sure that you view your document with the track changes (review toolbar) set to ALL MARKUP to be able to see all the comments.

The summary is split into four parts. These four parts consist of grammar/punctuation, conformity with APA style citations, conformity with APA style references, and content. The order of the parts listed does not intend to emphasize the importance of the parts as the content is always the most important part of the assignment. Therefore, it is listed in the end because normal memory concentrates on what was heard / read last.

What was found:

Grammar/ Punctuation

There were a few grammar or punctuation errors found within. There were problems in spelling, missing punctuation leading to run on sentences, missing punctuation leading to grammatical issues, and the agreement issues between words (i.e., subject/verb agreement and numerical plural numbers without plural noun). Make sure that you read your work prior to submission so that you will not have run on sentences within your work. Pay attention to the word “and” within your work.

APA style citations

The citations present were in APA format. You seem to be missing the additional 3 scholarly sources from your field that were required within this assignment.

APA style references

Not enough information was included within your references to make them correct APA references. You are missing page numbers, volume, issue number, and the digital object identifier for your journal article sources. Your book title should be in italics. The publisher should not. All of the titles should be in sentence case not in title case. This is not a problem with the software program. This is a problem with the keypunch issue. Your program cannot change lowercase letters into uppercase letters in vice versa. You must be it incorrectly for it to properly appear. Many have problems with this thought process. Do not leave it up to the software program to correct keypunch errors.

Content

The same problem that you had an assignment 5 appeared in assignment 6. You are not explaining how these research designs will fit with your research questions or problems statement as you move forward through the data collection process. Without doing this correctly, you will have problems with your signature assignment, assignment 7. You need to continue to read your assignment in detail. The assignment stated that the student should create this assignment in a manner consistent with the other assignments such as:

your approach must be systematic, logical, fully explained, and supported with scholarly sources. Use the resources provided, and at least three other peer-reviewed articles to defend your research plan.

Note that the statement, " defend your research plan" means that you should have used your research designs -- grounded Theory and case study -- to develop a data collection process for your research questions or problem statement. Do not overlook that you should have used the required reading as well as three additional scholarly sources from your field to show that this happens within your field.

As before a rewrite is not required but it is recommended. You have the basic information present. You now have to form the details to show what would occur within your project to collect data using these research designs.

If you have any questions about any part of this, please feel free to contact me via Skype or NCU email.

Revise and resubmit. Submit by last date of class.

V. Lindsay, PhD 3.5/10 11/14/19

Research Design and Data Collection

The research design that I am going to use for this assignment is the qualitative research design, as used in my assignment of week 5. Qualitative research designs may take various forms as I had illustrated, the first one being the grounded theory, which is used as a different approach for the developing theories, as arising from an established relationship after the process of data collection and analysis. This theory arises after a systematic gathering of data (Patten, 2017). The other form of qualitative data is case studies. This design analyses a set of issues within the limits of a given organization, situation, environment and so on. A case study may take the form of explanatory, exploratory or descriptive design. Comment by Vicki Lindsay, PhD: No first- or second-person view in an APA style paper written for NCU. APA only allows the first-person view within certain areas of the methodology. APA does not allow second person view within a scholarly paper. NCU does not condone the use of first- or second-person view within work that is submitted. If I see any use of these voices, I will highlight them from now forward. Comment by Vicki Lindsay, PhD: This course is qualitative research. You are studying the different types of designs in qualitative research. You need to explain which of the 5 research designs you are using for your data collection. In assignment 5, you should have explained 2 different research designs. This assignment is asking you to use those two designs and describe the collection of the data as a researcher would go forward with your research question or problem statement. Comment by Vicki Lindsay, PhD: This is your research design that you should be naming at the beginning.

Data collected

Data collection in grounded theory was based on observation notes by the participant through getting engaged in people's daily activities and the subjects in question. Data was also collected through interviewing the subjects. The use of texts and artifacts was as well used to gather data. In the case of study, data was collected was on the description of a situation by a subject, and answered the question of how and why. The explanation was based on a real-life event, and as well used the question who and what.

Organizing Data

Qualitative research comes up with a wide range of data that is derived from various sources like interviews, observation notes, questionnaires, and official documents. Due to a wide range of respondents as well as the participants well as a variety of researchers, it is important to classify and organize data to make its understanding easier (Creswell, 2013). The following five steps are the steps involved in organizing data.

1. Reviewing the whole set of data so to bring out themes or patterns, which are then assigned symbols or numbers to make it easier for the analysis.

2. Creating a table for the codes to ensure that there is consistency in the codes and that such codes are accessible from several researchers.

3. Classifying data into various groups according to various codes, make easier for the analysis and discussion. This may focus on themes that are independent as recorded in the data.

4. Organizing the data survey inform of a sub-topic or question to analyses data easily. This organization may take the form of question or subtopic

5. Coding the already transcribed data and labeling it to make data readily evident. In this case, it would be easy for a researcher to access information which has been analyzed, grouped and transcribed.

Coding and thematic development

In qualitative research, coding refers to the main method that is used in the development of themes or the patterns of meaning in data classification (Saldana, 2015). Thematic development is concerned with examining themes or general patterns within data analysis. In this case, coding defines the data being analyzations process identifies a passage within a text or any item of data like an image or a photograph, getting the concepts and looking for the relationship that exists between them. Coding is therefore seen as the process of linking data to an idea. In my case, concept and data-driven codes are being used to getting an idea from the research data. Thematic development, on the other hand, enroots on identification and interpretation of the pattern of meaning or themes used in the research work (Ryan, 2016). In my case, this was done through discourse analysis after the interviews and interpreting the observational notes. coding and thematic development make it easier to understand data.

Triangulation

This is the process of using a variety of data sources to make data comprehension easier. Triangulation also has found to test data validity through the convergence of given information from many sources. In this case, many methods are used to collect data to ensure data validity. Triangulation also increases a reader's knowledge as information is availed from different sources (Rothbauer, 2015). In my example, I have triangulated my qualitative study in data collection, where I used ground theory and the case study, to come up with more information on the research. This has helped widen the scope of research.

Using software applications

It is important to use software for qualitative analysis of data. This software system helps in processing discourse analysis, content analysis, text interpretation coding of information and interpreting information to enable a person to make informed decisions. In this case, I will use the SPSS software program for my qualitative research study.

References Creswell, J. (2013). Qualitative Inquary & Research Design: Choosing Among the Five Approaches. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 78. Patten, M. &. (2017). Understanding Research Methods: An overview of the essentials. Routledge, 52. Rothbauer, P. (2015). Triangulation: Qualitative Research Methods. Sage Publications, 891. Ryan, G. a. (2016). Techniques to Identify Themes. Field Methods, 95. Saldana, J. (2015). The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers (3rd edition). SAGE Publications Ltd.