文档介绍：RESEARCH DESIGN
Qualitative, Quantitative, and mixed
methods approaches
SECOND EDITION
JOHN W. CRESWELL
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Brief Contents
Preface xix
Acknowledgment xxvi
Part 1: Preliminary Considerations 1
1. A Framework for Design 3
2. Review of the Literature 27
3. Writing Strategies and Ethical Considerations 49
Part II. Designing Research 7 1
4. The introduction 73
5. The purpose Statement 87
6. Research questions and Hypotheses 105
7. The use of Theory 119
8. Definitions, Limitations, and Significance 142
9. Quantitative methods 153
10. Qualitative Procedures 179
11. Mixed Method Procedures 208
Reference 228
Author index 237
Subject index 240
About the Author 246
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CHAPTER ONE
A Framework
For design
In the past two decades, research approaches have multiplied to a point
at which investigatory or inquires have many choices. For those
designing a proposal or plan, I mend that a general framework be
adopted to provide guidance about all facets of the study, from assessing
the general philosophical ideas being the inquiry to the detailed data
collection and analysis procedures. Using an extant framework also
allows researchers to lodge their plans in ideas well grouped in the
literature and recognized by audiences (., mittee) that read
and support proposals for research.
What frameworks exist for designing a proposal. Although different
types and terms abound in the literature, I will focus on three:
quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. The first has
been available to the social and human scientist for years, the second
has emerged primarily during the last three or four decades, and the
lasts is new and still developing in form and substance.
This chapter introduces the reader o the three approaches to
research, I suggest that to understand them, the proposal developer
needs to consider three framework elements: philosophical assumptions
about what constitutes knowledge claims; general