scholarly journals Purposive sampling: complex or simple? Research case examples

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 652-661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Campbell ◽  
Melanie Greenwood ◽  
Sarah Prior ◽  
Toniele Shearer ◽  
Kerrie Walkem ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Sampling Strategies ◽  
Developmental History ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis

Background Purposive sampling has a long developmental history and there are as many views that it is simple and straightforward as there are about its complexity. The reason for purposive sampling is the better matching of the sample to the aims and objectives of the research, thus improving the rigour of the study and trustworthiness of the data and results. Four aspects to this concept have previously been described: credibility, transferability, dependability and confirmability. Aims The aim of this paper is to outline the nature and intent of purposive sampling, presenting three different case studies as examples of its application in different contexts. Results Presenting individual case studies has highlighted how purposive sampling can be integrated into varying contexts dependent on study design. The sampling strategies clearly situate each study in terms of trustworthiness for data collection and analysis. The selected approach to purposive sampling used in each case aligns to the research methodology, aims and objectives, thus addressing each of the aspects of rigour. Conclusions Making explicit the approach used for participant sampling provides improved methodological rigour as judged by the four aspects of trustworthiness. The cases presented provide a guide for novice researchers of how rigour may be addressed in qualitative research.

Visual Ethnography as a Research Methodology

2022 ◽  
pp. 18-40
Author(s):  
Candace Kaye
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Visual Ethnography ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
The Future ◽  
Investigative Process ◽  
The Way

The chapter presents a rationale for using visual ethnography as part of the methodology in qualitative research and illustrates what visual ethnography methodology is capable of accomplishing when imagery is included in the investigative process. Visual ethnography offers a venue for collecting and analyzing data that would otherwise be inaccessible and positions imagery as an important, rather than a minimal or occasional, choice for use in qualitative research. Topics include contemporary definitions of visual ethnography and its value in qualitative research, historical applications of visual ethnographic theory that influence the way researchers view visual ethnography today, and contemporary uses of visual ethnography in data collection and analysis. Finally, the conclusion explores the future of visual ethnography.

scholarly journals Considering "Objective" Possibilities in Autoethnography: A Critique of Heewon Chang’s Autoethnography as Method1

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Butler
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Cultural Effects ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology ◽  
Subjective Perspective

Autoethnography is a qualitative research methodology that emphasizes a more personal, almost intimate level of study. It renders the researcher-participant opportunities to explore past and present experiences while gaining self-awareness of his or her interactions and their socio-cultural effects. In the book Autoethnography as Method Heewon Chang presents this research methodology in an easy to follow text and illustration, while advocating an objective approach to data collection and analysis. However, Chang’s theoretical positions seem to shift back and forth between this objective point-of-view and a subjective perspective throughout the text causing ambiguity and contradiction of ideas and approaches.

scholarly journals TERORISME DITINJAU DARI PERSPEKTIF HUKUM PIDANA ISLAM (FIQIH JINAYAH)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
Zulkifli Zulkifli ◽  
Muh. Syarif Hasyim ◽  
Hamiyuddin Hamiyuddin
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Secondary Data Sources

The discussion in this research is terrorism from the perspective of Islamic criminal law (fiqih jinayah). The problem that becomes the focus of research is how terrorism is in the review of Islamic criminal law or jinnayah fiqh. Qualitative research, the source of which is library research, is the method used in research. There are two kinds of data sources in this research, namely primary and secondary data sources, while the data collection and analysis uses literature review research. The data were analyzed using the Islamic criminal law theory approach. So as a result of this research that acts of terrorism are not justified in Islamic teachings. The birth of this action is because the perpetrators have shallow thoughts or have very minimal thoughts and have political goals to harm themselves and others. They even consider this act as Jihad, even though in fact it is not a jihad but an act that brings fear to potential victims.

scholarly journals Implementasi Media Edmodo Dalam Mata Kuliah Bahasa Arab Di IAI Nazhatut Thullab Sampang

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-272
Author(s):  
Moh. Hasyim Asy’ari
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Observational Data ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology ◽  
Language Courses

This research is entitled "the implementation of Edmodo media in Arabic language courses at IAI Nazhatut Thullab Sampang. And the purpose of this study is to describe: 1)process of learning Arabic courses with Edmodo media at IAI Nazhatut Thullab Sampang, 2)constraints on applying Edmodo media in learning Arabic courses at IAI Nazhatut Thullab Sampang. In this study, researchers used a qualitative research methodology, while the location of this study was in the campus of IAI Nazhatut Thullab Sampang, in this study the researchers obtained data from the study program, semester 1 students of MPI study program, Arabic language lecturers, and observational data that would be carried out by researchers, as well as the written data that researchers need. Researchers use data collection procedures, data analysis, and checking validity. The results of this study are: 1) Arabic language lecturers submit lecture contracts to be worked on for one semester. Then the Arabic language lecturer explained about Edmodo media to students, the Arabic language instructor told students to create an Edmodo account using a Gmail account. and with the various features in Edmodo Arabic language lecturers can provide exercises such as sending Arabic language videos to improve their specific language and student experience, it makes it easier for students to learn Arabic. 2)in the use of edmodo media when the network is not good because some students in their homes in the countryside, accompanied by students' lack of understanding of the use of edmodo such as functions rather than features contained in edmodo, thus hampering the process of learning Arabic.

The Limits of Shared Panethnic Status: Considering Culture, Age, and Language in Qualitative Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 016059762110329
Author(s):  
Trisha J. Tiamzon ◽  
Miho Iwata ◽  
Shweta Majumdar Adur
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Culture Age ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Different Levels

The increase of qualitative research in gerontology invites discussion of the effects of researcher positionality on data collection and analysis. Analyses of the interviewing experiences of three researchers who conducted a qualitative study of aging Asian Americans illustrate the complexities of negotiating “insider” status. Despite the interviewers’ shared panethnic status (Asian) with the participants, they experienced different levels of insider status, which were based, in part, on cultural competence related to cultural norms and practices, age hierarchies, and language. This suggests that qualitative researchers should engage in reflexive practices that consider researcher positionality in relation to research participants. Researchers need to pay attention to the possible implications of cultural competence on negotiating insider status and when gathering and analyzing data, similar to considerations of culturally relevant approaches in practical settings.

Analysing Famine

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-27
Author(s):  
Daniel Maxwell ◽  
Peter Hailey
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Severe Malnutrition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Excess Death ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Technical Capacity

Famine means destitution, increased severe malnutrition, disease, excess death and the breakdown of institutions and social norms. Politically, it means a failure of governance – a failure to provide the most basic of protections. Because of both its human and political meanings, ‘famine’ can be a shocking term. This is turn makes the analysis – and especially declaration – of famine a very sensitive subject. This paper synthesises the findings from six case studies of the analysis of extreme food insecurity and famine to identify the political constraints to data collection and analysis, the ways in which these are manifested, and emergent good practice to manage these influences. The politics of information and analysis are the most fraught where technical capacity and data quality are the weakest. Politics will not be eradicated from analysis but can and must be better managed.

Design-Based Case Study

2018 ◽  
pp. 50-62
Author(s):  
Cynthia C. M. Deaton ◽  
Jacquelynn A. Malloy
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Design Based Research ◽  
Study Research ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Instructional Innovations

Design-based case studies allow researchers to examine instructional innovations that are bounded by perspective, context, and time. Design-based case study is an approach that blends case study research with design-based research in order to more systematically examine the process and products of an intervention. This approach provides a framework for engaging in iterative cycles of data collection and analysis to determine if, how, and why goals of instructional innovations have been met. This chapter provides an overview of the design-based case study approach and responds to common concerns surrounding case study and design-based research and how design-based case studies address these concerns by building on the strengths of both approaches.

Social Networks and Terrorism

2011 ◽  
pp. 232-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Knoke
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Tools And Methods

This chapter explains how international terror networks, consisting of individuals and organizations spanning countries and continents, form and evolve. It describes tools and methods used by social network analysts to study such networks; their applications by counterterrorist organizations; their limitations and problems in data collection and analysis; and directions for future research. It also discusses a few recent case studies by prominent researchers.

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