The Characteristic of Qualitative Research

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Abstract

The representative of a recently emerged orientation as an essential component of educational research in its broad sense is called qualitative research. Although applied to human organizations, it is an essential form of qualitative research. In comparison to other traditions in educational research, qualitative research is different. Quantitative analysis and quantitative data are both sometimes involved in qualitative research. The studying of behavior, as it occurs naturally within the setting, is one of the key characteristic in qualitative research. Over long periods of time from interviews and observation, the narrative data is collected that entails in direct data collection, which is one of the key characteristic of qualitative research. In order to better understand the phenomena being studies, the reader needs to understand the context of the study in detail for which rich narrative descriptions are required that is one of the key characteristic of qualitative research. How and why behaviors occur is focused by the process orientation which is also a key characteristic of qualitative research studies. From synthesizing gathered information, generalizations are induced by the inductive data that are another key characteristic of qualitative research. Focus on meaning and understanding of the participant, the participant perspectives is a key characteristic of qualitative research studies and is important so that different things are understood and different things are done due to multiple realities.

Introduction4

Discussion4

The Characteristics of Qualitative Research4

The Qualitative Research as Ethnographic Research5

The Qualitative Research as an Alternative6

The Characteristics of an Ethnographic Research6

The Holistic Approach6

The Native Perspectives7

The Naturalistic Data-Collection7

Conclusion8

Introduction

The representative of a recently emerged orientation as an essential component of educational research in its broad sense is called qualitative research. In professional education ethnography is the rare research project today and has become virtually a household word. Although applied to human organizations, it is an essential form of qualitative research. In comparison to other traditions in educational research, qualitative research is different (Rolfe, 2006). Alternative orientations are denoted by the adjective ethnographic and qualitative in empirical educational research and are both extensively used in the literature. Quantitative analysis and quantitative data are both sometimes involved in qualitative research. In comparison to other research orientations, like historical study and philosophical analysis, qualitative research includes its original sense.

Discussion

The Characteristics of Qualitative Research

The studying of behavior, as it occurs naturally within the setting, is one of the key characteristic in qualitative research. The natural setting is not controlled or manipulated by the researcher. Without interfering or altering with the environment, the behavior can be observed in the natural setting (Rubin, 2011). Over long periods of time from interviews and observation, the narrative data is collected that entails in direct data collection, which is one of the key characteristic of qualitative research. With the help of interpretive techniques, the narrative data is personally collected and interpreted by the researcher.

A rich understanding of the phenomenon being studied can be obtained by the researcher as over many days or hours, the natural occurrence of behavior can be ...