Quantitative and qualitative inquiry are sometimes portrayed as distinct and incompatible paradigms for research in education. Approaches to combining qualitative and quantitative research typically " integrate " the two methods by letting them co-exist independently within a single research study. Here we describe intra-sample statistical analysis (ISSA) as a general technique for using quanti...

nerve decompression, and then living with the consequences – good or bad – of the surgery. Qualitative inquiry is not a monolith. It is an umbrella term that encompasses numerous approaches to health research. 3 Khu and colleagues have chosen an exploratory descriptive design using semi-structured interviews to better understand patient satisfaction with entrapment neuropathy surgery. Other dat...

BACKGROUND Qualitative research is frequently context bound, lacks generalizability, and is limited in scope. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this article was to describe a method, theoretical coalescence, that provides a strategy for analyzing complex, high-level concepts and for developing generalizable theory. Theoretical coalescence is a method of theoretical expansion, inductive inquiry, of th...

The aim of this qualitative study is to investigate how young citizens engage with urban inquiries activities on Personal Learning Environments (PLEs). This work analyses how educators can design and assess short inquiry activities as well as how students use a PLE to interact and collaborate for creating scientific questions. Participants of this qualitative study were 5 researchers from Highe...

a bstract   background: qualitative research focuses on social world and provides the tools to study health phenomena from the perspective of those experiencing them. identifying the problem, forming the question, and selecting an appropriate methodology and design are some of the initial challenges that researchers encounter in the early stages of any research project. these problems are parti...

Despite a growing interest in qualitative research in occupational therapy, little attention has been placed on establishing its rigor. This article presents one model that can be used for the assessment of trustworthiness or merit of qualitative inquiry. Guba's (1981) model describes four general criteria for evaluation of research and then defines each from both a quantitative and a qualitati...