Research Design,/ Creswell,John W.

Analytic contents of research techniques --
Preface --
Purpose --
Audience --
Format --
Outline of chapters --
Acknowledgments --
About the author --
Part 1: Preliminary Considerations --
1: Selection of a research design --
Three types of designs --
Three components involved in a design --
Philosophical worldviews --
Postpositivist worldview --
Social constructivist worldview --
Advocacy and participatory worldview --
Pragmatic worldview --
Strategies of inquiry --
Quantitative strategies --
Qualitative strategies --
Mixed methods strategies --
Research methods --
Research designs as worldviews, strategies, and methods --
Criteria for selecting a research design --
Research problem --
Personal experiences --
Audience --
Summary --
Writing exercises --
Additional readings --
2: Review Of The Literature --
Research topic --
Literature review --
Use of literature --
Design techniques --
Steps in conducting a literature review --
Searching computerized databases --
Priority for selecting literature material --
Literature map of the research --
Abstracting studies --
Example 2-1: Literature review in a quantitative study --
Example 2-2: Literature review in a study advancing a typology --
Style manuals --
Definition of terms --
Example 2-3: Terms defined in a mixed methods dissertation --
Example 2-4: Terms defined in an independent variables section --
Quantitative or mixed methods literature review --
Summary --
Writing exercises --
Additional readings --
3: Use Of Theory --
Quantitative theory use --
Variables in quantitative research --
Definition of a theory --
Forms of theories --
Placement of quantitative theories --
Writing a quantitative theoretical perspective --
Example 3-1: Quantitative theory section --
Qualitative theory use --
Variation in theory use in qualitative research --
Locating the theory in qualitative research --
Example 3-2: Theory early in a qualitative study --
Example 3-3: Theory at the end of a qualitative study --
Mixed methods theory use --
Example 3-4: Theory in a transformative-emancipatory mixed methods study --
Summary --
Writing exercises --
Additional readings --
4: Writing Strategies And Ethical Considerations --
Writing the proposal --
Sections in a proposal --
Format for a qualitative proposal --
Example 4-1: Qualitative constructivist/interpretivist format --
Example 4-2: Qualitative advocacy/participatory format --
Format for a quantitative proposal --
Example 4-3: Quantitative format --
Format for a mixed methods proposal --
Example 4-4: Mixed methods format --
Designing the sections of a proposal --
Writing ideas --
Writing as thinking --
Habit of writing --
Readability of the manuscript --
Example 4-5: Illustration of the hook-and-eye technique --
Voice, tense, and "fat" --
Ethical issues to anticipate --
Ethical issues in the research problem --
Ethical issues in the purpose and questions --
Ethical issues in data collection --
Ethical issues in data analysis and interpretation --
Ethical issues in writing and disseminating the research --
Summary --
Writing exercises --
Additional readings. Part 2: Designing Research --
5: Introduction --
Importance of introductions --
Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods introductions --
Model for an introduction --
Illustration --
Research problem --
Studies addressing the problem --
Deficiencies in past literature --
Example 5-1: Deficiencies in the literature-needed studies --
Example 5-2: Deficiencies in the literature-few studies --
Significance of a study for audiences --
Example 5-3: Significance of the study stated in an introduction to a quantitative study --
Summary --
Writing exercises --
Additional readings --
6: Purpose Statement --
Significance and meaning of a purpose statement --
Qualitative purpose statement --
Example 6-1: Purpose statement in a qualitative phenomenology study --
Example 6-2: Purpose statement in a case study --
Example 6-3: Purpose statement in an ethnography --
Example 6-4: Purpose statement in a grounded theory study --
Quantitative purpose statement --
Example 6-5: Purpose statement in a published survey study --
Example 6-6: Purpose statement in a dissertation survey study --
Example 6-7: Purpose statement in an experimental study --
Mixed methods purpose statement --
Example 6-8: Concurrent mixed methods purpose statement --
Example 6-9: Sequential mixed methods purpose statement --
Example 6-10: Transformative concurrent mixed methods purpose statement --
Summary --
Writing exercises --
Additional readings --
7: Research Questions And Hypotheses --
Qualitative research questions --
Example 7-1: Qualitative central question from an ethnography --
Example 7-2: Qualitative central questions from a case study --
Quantitative research questions and hypotheses --
Example 7-3: Null hypothesis --
Example 7-4: Directional hypotheses --
Example 7-5: Nondirectional and directional hypotheses --
Example 7-6: Standard use of language in hypotheses --
Model for descriptive questions and hypotheses --
Example 7-7: Descriptive and inferential questions --
Mixed methods research questions and hypotheses --
Example 7-8: Hypotheses and research questions in a mixed methods study --
Example 7-9: Mixed methods question written in terms of mixing procedures --
Summary --
Writing exercises --
Additional readings --
8: Quantitative Methods --
Defining surveys and experiments --
Components of a survey method plan --
Survey design --
Population and sample --
Instrumentation --
Variables in the study --
Data analysis and interpretation --
Example 8-1: Survey method section --
Components of an experimental method plan --
Participants --
Variables --
Instrumentation and materials --
Experimental procedures --
Example 8-2: Pre-experimental designs --
Example 8-3: Quasi-experimental designs --
Example 8-4: True experimental designs --
Example 8-5: Single-subject designs --
Threats to validity --
Procedure --
Data analysis --
Interpreting results --
Example 8-6: Experimental method section --
Summary --
Writing exercises --
Additional readings. 9: Qualitative Procedures --
Characteristics of qualitative research --
Strategies of inquiry --
Researcher's role --
Data collection procedures --
Data recording procedures --
Data analysis and interpretation --
Reliability, validity, and generalizability --
Qualitative write-up --
Example 9-1: Qualitative procedures --
Summary --
Writing exercises --
Additional readings --
10: Mixed Methods Procedures --
Components of mixed methods procedures --
Nature of mixed methods research --
Types of mixed methods strategies and visual models --
Planning mixed methods procedures --
Timing --
Weighting --
Mixing --
Theorizing or transforming perspectives --
Alternative strategies and visual models --
Sequential explanatory strategy --
Sequential exploratory strategy --
Sequential transformative strategy --
Concurrent triangulation strategy --
Concurrent embedded strategy --
Concurrent transformative strategy --
Choosing a mixed methods strategy --
Data collection procedures --
Data analysis and validation procedures --
Report presentation structure --
Examples of mixed methods procedures --
Example 10-1: Sequential strategy of inquiry --
Example 10-2: Concurrent strategy of inquiry --
Example 10-3: Transformative strategy of inquiry --
Summary --
Writing exercises --
Additional readings --
Glossary --
References --
Author index --
Subject index.