Blog #6 - Designing Qualitative Data (J. Maxwell)

 

 The Value of Qualitative Data 

Truly enjoy the the valuable inside Maxwell elaborated in this reading.  He provided directions on how quantitative data collection work and lots inside navigation.  Please see the chart above as during the reading I found ALL these components that would allow you to collect powerful and adequate models of design follow by merging them together in a reporting system that would analyzed a proper system to obtain successful functioning and steps of planning.

The image displayed - Figure 7.2  Contextual Factors Influencing a Research Design

- Helps identify part of the research as it explains and can assist as a useful one for the reasons explained in the article which are: 1) Explicitly identifies as a key and issues are less likely to be ignore. 2) Emphasizes the nature and multiplies the connection of all components. 3) Model of study proposal that communicates the connections amongst all.    

What attracted the most attention was the Research Questions: What Do You Want to Understand?  This was one of many yet the one that attracted my attention the most.  Why? This explains and explicitly indicates the preliminary process before you even begin your project/research and all that is relevant to the understanding of the study data that you will be collecting and analyzing.  It also allows you to create a flow sheet that would serve as a preliminary guiding point and will assist as a tool to develop initial questions of the frame you you are generating to further assist on developing more specific questions that influence the decisions of some / if not all of the methods. 

In conclusion, the methods process brought me back to the pizza menu which sound very similar to how we may collect and create a list of guiding points to carry a task however the analytical design is often conceptually from its design, which means from the data actually collected as Coffey & Atkinson, 1996 indicated "I treat analysis as a part of desing and as something that must itself be designed.  Basic principles of qualitative research is that: data analysis should be conducted simultaneously w/data collection."  

 These steps would allow us to test your emerging conclusions.