Evaluating Research Questions and Qualitative Research Designs

Evaluating Research Questions and Qualitative Research Designs

For this Discussion, you will evaluate qualitative research questions in assigned journal articles in your discipline and consider the alignment of theory, problem, purpose, research questions, and design. You will also identify the type of qualitative research design or approach the authors used and explain how it was implemented. Narrative, ethnographic, grounded theory, case study, and phenomenology are examples of types of research designs or approaches used in qualitative research.

Post a critique of the research study in which you:

Evaluate the research questions (The Research Questions and Hypotheses Checklist can be used as a guide to facilitate your evaluation; it is not meant to be used in a Yes/No response format in writing your Discussion post.)
Identify the type of qualitative research approach used and explain how the researchers implemented the design
Analyze alignment among the theoretical or conceptual framework, problem, purpose, research questions, and design
This is the article below:

Lord, S., Després, C., & Ramadier, T. (2011). When mobility makes sense: A qualitative and longitudinal study of the daily mobility of the elderly. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 31(1), 52–61. doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2010.02.007
Be sure to support your Main Post with reference to Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA Style.

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Qualitative Research Evaluation

Different scholars use varied approaches as a means of delivering information on a particular issue to the audience. While some may use a quantitative approach as the basis of research, others choose the qualitative approach. Notably, the type of research is always dependent on the research objective and would influence other aspects of the study that end up influencing the amount of appeal the study has on the target audience.

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