Assignment:
Could you please help me determine if this article is quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods? How do you know? Please help me understand the following questions:
Does the purpose statement begin with signaling words? Add If so, what are they?
Does the purpose statement identify the strategy of inquiry?
If the study is qualitative, does the purpose statement do as follows?
- Focus on a single phenomenon
- Use an action verb to convey how learning will take place
- Use neutral, nondirectional language
- Provide a general working direction of the central phenomenon
If the study is quantitative, does the purpose statement do as follows?
- Identify the independent, dependent, and control variables
- Use words that connect the variables
- Position the variables from independent to dependent
- Provide a general definition of each key variable
If the study is mixed methods, does the purpose statement do as follows?
- Indicate the overall content intent
- Discuss the reasons for combining both quantitative and qualitative data
- Include the characteristics of a good qualitative purpose statement
- Include the characteristics of a good quantitative purpose statement
Indicate the specific types of quantitative and qualitative data collection.
Readings:
Partners in Diabetes : Action research in a primary care setting
By Tai J. Mendenhall and William J. Doherty