Assignment task:
Qualitative Article Review Assignment Instructions:
Overview:
Understanding the differences between Quantitative and Qualitative Research is vital to further dissecting and digesting the volumes of literature in this course. Qualitative Research Methods employs a great deal of gathering, organizing, assessing, and presenting Non-numerical data collected from interviews, observations, case study analysis, often in non-experimental fashion.
More and more scholarly research in the Sport Profession today is of the qualitative-nature, it is vital students can accurately decipher the differences. The best way to comprehend qualitative research methods is to study it intimately while dissecting and re-presenting a pristine summary of a single non-statistical research study. Learn the intricacies of a major published research project regarding your topic from Abstract through References writing a thorough analysis in a non-statistical, deeper and often more-meaningful manner.
Instructions:
Choose 1 qualitative article related to your Literature Review or Alternative Assignment and compose a 2-page review of it. Your review must include 2 sections after a proper Title Page: (1) a summary of the article and (2) a critical analysis of the article.
Your summary must include:
- The purpose of the study
- Description of participants/sample
- The research design/data analysis: narrative, grounded theory, case study, phenomenology, ethnography, etc.
- Method of data collection: questionnaire, document analysis, observation, interview (open-ended, structured), etc.
- Results
Your analysis must include:
- Opportunities for further research not already stated in the article
- Threats to validity or undocumented bias on the part of the researcher(s)
- Other original insight or criticism
- Implications of the findings