Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Methods and Designs

To the Instructor

This introductory research text is intended as a guide for your students who are most likely to be consumers, but not necessarily producers, of qualitative research. Although the book might serve as a primer for fledgling researchers, the overarching goal is to support your efforts in teaching students to become more intelligent readers and interpreters of this kind of research conducted by others.

The specific audiences are students in upper-level undergraduate and beginning graduate research courses who are not likely to pursue additional research course work on their own. Thus no prior experience or prerequisite course work would be required before using this text, although an introductory quantitative and qualitative survey ...