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Focus Groups A Practical Guide for Applied Research by Richard Krueger

Whereas quantitative research concentrates primarily on a larger, wider angle of information, qualitative research focuses more on...

Strategic Planning Study Proposal

This paper of ten pages includes Henry Mintzberg's article The Fall and Rise of Strategic planning in its strategic planning propo...

Leisure Analysis and Research Types

In six pages this paper examines quantitative and qualitative scientific research methods in terms of definition, pros and cons of...

Relationship Between Patient and Doctor and the Process of Building Trust

patients were approached and volunteered to serve in focus groups to discuss the trust issue. The patients ranged in age from 26 ...

Researching Culture by Pertti Alasuutari

analysis" and then defines qualitative analysis as "reasoning and argumentation that is not based on statistical relations between...

Survey Development

contains questions that appear to be important in determining effective curriculum reform but also contains two overriding deficie...

An Article on Nursing Spirituality Critiqued

of spirituality is not uniform and that "spirituality" as a term is frequently used as a synonym for religion, which is not necess...

Qualitative Collection of Data and Interviews

contributes to the explosion of knowledge that has occurred in recent years. Research is not required to reach any monumental con...

Nursing Practice and Pain Management Research

a lingering distrust of the qualitative approach, one that often has not been done well and has resulted in works that cannot be c...

Which Represents the Best Research Methodology?

between the subject of study and the researcher. Quantitative research studies, in contrast, stress measurement and statistical an...

Concept Map's Value

outcome of mathematics instruction in Massachusetts (Johnston, 2001). Johnston (2001) explained in great detail where the state w...

Review of an Article on Nursing Home Residents and Hospitalization

field of nursing and in particular for nursing home facilities. Valid data could put pressure on nursing homes to hire an adequate...

Clincal Practice Guidelines and Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis in Children

Such statistics demonstrate that it is important for healthcare professionals, especially those associated involved with the treat...

Implications of Nationalistic Inquiry by Yvonna Lincoln and Egon Guba

The qualitative research implications of this 1985 text are the focus of this report consisting of six pages. Two sources are cit...

Psychology, Science, and Research Approaches

definite place in psychology as well. Quantitative verses qualitative areas of areas of investigation are most often regard...

CA Prison Health Care/Article Analysis

training" (Murphy, 2005, p. 23). As a prisoner, the author observed prison culture from the perspective of a participant. Various ...

Study Critique/RN Job Satisfaction

of describing this sample. The authors relate that the study sample was recruited by contacting two major health care employers in...

Aging with MS/Article Analysis

be used. Discussing qualitative research in general provides a topic to which outside sources can be logically applied. This write...

Online Learning Effectiveness

A pamphlet originally published in 1949 titled How to Study Physics encourages learners to continue to learn. The 1955 edition ex...

Mixed Method Study and Juvenile Crime Intervention Strategies

The intent of this paper is to discuss the considerations that must be made in framing a mixed method study that will approach the...

4 Questions on Social Research Statistics Answered

in Alaska with puppy growth in New York (Correlation does not equal Causation, n.d.). If tracking both over the course of several...

Article Critique/Nurses & Tobacco

a summation of how addiction occurs. They then address the scope of the problem, which relates the issue under investigation dir...

An Article Analysis, Ethics and School Nurses

This essay provides a summary and analysis of the research conducted by Solum and Schaffer (2003), which involved a study sample o...

Science and the Underdetermination of Theory by Evidence

underdetermination. The scientific process is characterized by two separate yet integrated approaches. These approaches are that...

Article Critique/Cardiac Rehab Nursing

were contributing to the "toxic" work environment, which characterized this CSDU, as there was "evidence of a lack of meaningful c...

Neighborhood Watch: Study Design

hall meetings, in-depth interviews and one-on-one conversations with the purpose of exploring the issue in detail. In this partic...

Results for Primary Research Assessing the Requirements for an Organization to become a Learning Organization

The paper is the presentation of the primary qualitative research results of the student, which had the aim of assessing the degr...

Definitions, Four Topics

This paper presents definitions that pertain to inductive and deductive reasoning, interviews v. focus groups and the difference b...

Criminological Studies and Scientific Variables

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at scientific variables. Criminological studies are examined for the use of such variab...

Summary and Review of Two Papers Using Meta Analysis

The writer looks at two research papers that used meta-analysis as methodology, but are presented in very different ways. The two ...