Problem
Research Question: How do people who witness domestic violence understand how it affects their current relationships?
Instructions:
1) What is a qualitative research question that is aligned to a research problem?
2) This specific question should be written in a way that could be answered through qualitative data; this is the question that will be answered by the proposed study.
A. Identify a research design for a qualitative study.
a. Describe the research design for the proposed study.
b. Choose from case study, ethnography, phenomenology, and grounded theory.
c. Provide a rationale as to why this particular design is a good fit for your study.
B. Describe an appropriate sampling strategy for a qualitative study.
a. Describe a proposed sampling method, including a rationale for the sample chosen and how many participants would comprise the sample.
C. Detail data collection strategies and sources that address a research question.
a. Identify the data that would be collected in your study.
b. Explain how you would collect the qualitative data that would answer your research question.
D. Explain a qualitative data analysis strategy that aligns to the research problem.
a. Explain how you would analyze the data that you collected based upon your research question and the type of data that will be collected.
E. Describe ethical and cultural concerns in the proposed qualitative study.
a. Identify at least one ethical and at least one cultural concern that may be present in the proposed study.
F. Describe how mixed methods might be applied to address the research problem.
a. Describe how the problem that you investigated might be addressed by using a mixed-methods approach.
b. Explain whether you believe that would be a stronger approach or not, in this particular situation.