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Creswell, J. W. (2014). Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods Approaches (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

The book Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods Approaches by Creswell (2014) covers three approaches-qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods. This educational book is informative and illustrative and is equally beneficial for students, teachers and researchers. Readers should have basic knowledge of research for better understanding of this book. There are two parts of the book. Part 1 (chapter 1-4) consists of steps for developing research proposal and part II (chapter 5-10) explains how to develop a research proposal or write a research report. A summary is given at the end of every chapter that helps the reader to recapitulate the ideas. Moreover, writing exercises and suggested readings at the end of every chapter are useful for the readers. Chapter 1 opens with-definition of research approaches and the author gives his opinion that selection of a research approach is based on the nature of the research problem, researchers' experience and the audience of the study. The author defines qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research. A distinction is made between quantitative and qualitative research approaches. The author believes that interest in qualitative research increased in the latter half of the 20th century. The worldviews, Fraenkel, Wallen and Hyun (2012) and Onwuegbuzie and Leech (2005) call them paradigms, have been explained. Sometimes, the use of language becomes too philosophical and technical. This is probably because the author had to explain some technical terms.

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Conducting a well-established research requires deep knowledge about the research designs. Doing research can be likened to jumping into the sea which may transform into a huge ocean if the researcher is not experienced. As a PhD candidate and a novice researcher, I believe that the book "Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods Approaches" by J.W. Creswell is a true reference guide for novice researchers since it is the most comprehensive and informative source with its reader-friendly structure.

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John W. Creswell was previously a professor in educational psychology in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He moved to the University of Michigan in 2015 as a professor in the Department of Family Medicine. He has published many articles and close to 27 books on mixed methods. Professor Creswell is also one of the founding members of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research. He was a Fulbright scholar in South Africa in 2008 and Thailand in 2012. In 2011, he served as a visiting professor in the School of Public Health of Harvard University. In 2014, he became the Chairman of the Mixed Methods International Research Association. Professor Creswell has a personal website called “Mixed Methods Research” at http://johnwcreswell.com/. The site contains the information about his background, his own blog, consulting works and published books. He also posted replies questions from academic researchers and practitioners in the blog.

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There are a number of approaches used in this research method design. The purpose of this chapter is to design the methodology of the research approach through mixed types of research techniques. The research approach also supports the researcher on how to come across the research result findings. In this chapter, the general design of the research and the methods used for data collection are explained in detail. It includes three main parts. The first part gives a highlight about the dissertation design. The second part discusses about qualitative and quantitative data collection methods. The last part illustrates the general research framework. The purpose of this section is to indicate how the research was conducted throughout the study periods.

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Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach PDF

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This book provides researchers and students with a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. It shows how the components of design interact with each other, and provides a strategy for creating coherent and workable relationships among these design components, highlighting key design issues. Written in an informal, jargon-free style, the book incorporates examples and hands-on exercises. [Sage Publications, Inc.]...

Cover Page......Page 2 Title......Page 8 Copyright......Page 9 Contents......Page 11 Preface......Page 13 About the Author......Page 16 Chapter 1. A Model for Qualitative Research Design......Page 17 The Organization of This Book......Page 31 The Exercises in This Book......Page 32 Notes......Page 34 Personal, Practical, and Intellectual Goals......Page 35 What Goals Can Qualitative Research Help You Achieve?......Page 40 Notes......Page 48 Chapter 3. Conceptual Framework: What Do You Think Is Going On?......Page 49 The Value (and Pitfalls) of Research Paradigms......Page 51 Experiential Knowledge......Page 54 Prior Theory and Research......Page 57 The Uses of Existing Theory......Page 58 Concept Maps......Page 62 Other Uses of Existing Research......Page 71 Pilot and Exploratory Studies......Page 72 Thought Experiments......Page 74 Notes......Page 77 Chapter 4. Research Questions: What Do You Want to Understand?......Page 78 The Functions of Research Questions......Page 79 Research Questions and Other Kinds of Questions......Page 80 Research Hypotheses in Qualitative Designs......Page 81 General Questions and Particular Questions......Page 82 Instrumentalist Questions and Realist Questions......Page 83 Variance Questions and Process Questions......Page 86 Developing Research Questions......Page 87 Chapter 5. Methods: What Will You Actually Do?......Page 91 More and Less Structured Approaches......Page 92 Negotiating Research Relationships......Page 94 Site and Participant Selection......Page 99 The Relationship Between Research Questions and Data Collections Methods......Page 102 Using Multiple Data Collection Methods......Page 104 Strategies for Qualitative Data Analysis......Page 106 Computers and Qualitative Data Analysis......Page 115 Linking Methods and Questions......Page 116 Notes......Page 119 The Concept of Validity......Page 121 Researcher Bias......Page 123 Validity Tests: A Checklist......Page 124 Generalization in Qualitative Research......Page 135 Notes......Page 136 Chapter 7. Research Proposals: Presenting and Justifying a Qualitative Study......Page 138 The Purpose of a Proposal......Page 139 The Relationship Between Your Research Design and Your Proposal Argument......Page 140 A Model for Proposal Structure......Page 141 Notes......Page 156 Appendix A: A Proposal for a Study of Medical School Teaching......Page 157 Appendix B: A Proposal for a Study of Online Learning by Teachers......Page 173 References......Page 189 Index......Page 200

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