Qualitative Research

A Guide to Design and Implementation, 4th Edition

By: Sharan B. Merriam, Elizabeth J. Tisdell

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 11 hrs and 1 min

Publisher's summary

The best-selling guide to qualitative research, updated and expanded.

Qualitative Research is the essential guide to understanding, designing, conducting, and presenting a qualitative research study. This fourth edition features new material covering mixed methods, action research, arts-based research, online data sources, and the latest in data analysis, including data analysis software packages as well as narrative and poetic analysis strategies. A new section offers multiple ways of presenting qualitative research findings. The accessible, jargon-free style makes this audiobook ideal for both novice and experienced researchers, emphasizing the role of a theoretical framework in designing a study while providing practical guidance.

Qualitative research reaches beyond the what, where, and when of quantitative analysis to investigate the why and how behind human behavior and the reasons that govern such behavior, but this presents a number of significant challenges. This guide is an invaluable reference for students and practitioners alike, providing the deep understanding that this sometimes difficult area of research requires to produce accurate results.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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A must read for doctoral students.

This book provides a depth of information regarding qualitative analysis from their perspective as well as scholars who are widely accepted in the field of research.

Exactly what I needed

I am year two of my Doctoral studies and the information in this book is invaluable.

Listen at 2.0x

This book is required read for my Qualitative Research class. I am pleased that it is in both audio and text format. Having both makes the process more enjoyable.
The narrator does a fine job, but I gradually raised the speed to 2.0x, pausing when I need to make notes or highlights.
The content of the book is somewhat elementary, but for those who want an introduction to Qualitative Research, it provides an excellent framework.

Disappointing

Reading was fine but the content was sometimes too elementary and other points not as well understood didn’t go into enough detail

Very helpful!

Just started writing my qualitative research proposal and this book has been very helpful. Extremely easy to read and detailed descriptions of the qualitative process that I needed to get my proposal started.

Excellent for background doctoral study!

This book brought qualitative research alive for me. I bought the print edition because I was stopping so frequently to try to capture reference information. Very well written! informative!

Hard to understand

The narrator was perfect, the language was easy to understand, yet I had a hard time understanding all the terms. I think I will have to listen one more time with a translator in hand.

Research information is good however this is a bias book more focused on pushing an agenda not research methods

When discussing research methods this book is great. However, the authors spend too much time discussing critical and political research repeatedly pointing to victimhood related topics. If the authors had stuck to research methods rather than pushing political points I would be able to recommend to my students but I cannot in good conscience instruct my learners to read or listen to the non scientific topics within this book.

An excellent research textbook

I have begun my investigation in to research, and I found this book completely comprehensive and thoroughly appropriate. If you are looking for an introduction to researh, you might finding it more than you need, but it was exactly what I was looking for and I bought the physical copy because I found it so valuable.

My goodness. This Book should have a Disclaimer

Disclaimer: This book is for persons who want to conduct "Woke" qualitative research.

This textbook is limited to a specific audience.

Generally a solid book

The pages of the attached pdf were rather unclear i.e. out of focus

Otherwise the narration of content was fine.

One of the best books on qualitative research

Loved it, the narrator was awesome and crystal clear. The book is to the point with important summarizes at the end of every chapter to drive the points of the chapter more clearly. 😁