NUR 80A/B Chapter : Fall Week 7 - Qualitative Research Designs

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Nursing
• Course: NUR 80A/B
• Professor: L.Atack

Document Summary

In quantitative research, researchers specify a research design before collecting their data and adhere to that design once the study is underway; they design and then they do. In quantitative research, the research design typically evolves during the study; qualitative researchers design as they do. Qualitative research design is an emergent design - a design that emerges as researchers make ongoing decisions reflecting what has already been learned. When the research goal is to thoroughly describe, understand or explain a phenomenon from the subjective perspective of the participants. When striving for a holistic understanding of a phenomenon. It is flexible and elastic, capable of adjusting to what is being learned during the course of data collection; Requires ongoing analysis of the data to formulate subsequent strategies and to determine when fieldwork is done; Tends to be holistic, striving for an understanding of the whole; Typically involves a merging together of various data collection strategies;