QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

DEFINITIONS

Jhon Creawell (1994)

It explores a social or human problem and all the analyses, reports, conducts are in natural setting.

It explores a social or human problem
and all the analyses, reports, conducts
are in natural setting.

Sharam Merriam (2009)

It focuses how people understand the world and the experiences they have in it.

It focuses how people understand
the world and the experiences they
have in it.

Dr. Leslie Curry (2015)

It can generate a comprehensive description of processes, mechanisms or setting. How to implement the invention into somethin

It can generate a comprehensive description of processes, mechanisms or setting. How to implement the invention into something to improve.

Ethical Considerations

Ethical principal

Beneficience

doing good for others and preventing harm

doing good for others and
preventing harm

Atonomy

recognition of participants rights.

recognition of
participants rights.

Justice

avoid exploitation and abuse of participants.

avoid exploitation and
abuse of participants.

CHARACTERISTICS

CONCERN WITH PROCESS

CONCERN WITH PROCESS

It involves actively participated in the
daily activities, in the procedures and interation to the participants. Focus on the process rather than outcomes.

DESCRIPTIVE DATA

DESCRIPTIVE DATA

Take data from the perceptions of
the people in the enviroment, such as
interview, pictures, personal document rather than numbers.

NATURALISTIC

NATURALISTIC

Discribe and measure the behavior of people in their darly lives to understand the real world.

INDUCTIVE

INDUCTIVE

It analyses the data in an inductive, the researcher constructs the picture by examining and collecting the parts.

MEANING

MEANING

The important is the participants´ perspective to know about their lives and
what they take for granted.