MELC 1 - Qualitative Research Design

• Design 


  A word which means a plan or something that is conceptualized by the mind. It includes many related aspects of your research work.
• A design in the field of research serves as blueprint or a skeletal framework of your research study.
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  A choice of a research design requires you to finalize your mind on the purpose, philosophical basis, and types of data of your research, including your method of collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and presenting the data.
• Design


  It is a plan that directs your mind to several stages of your research work.
• There are five types of qualitative research design: phenomenology, grounded theory, case study, ethnography and historical.
• Case Study


  To do a research study based on this design is to describe and present the nature of existence of a person, things or any other creatures here on earth.
• Case Study


  Your goal in this research design is to know why such creature (person, organization, thing or event) acts, behaves, occurs, or exists in particular manner. 
• Case Study


  This research design mainly focus on an individual or single subject matter. 
• Case Study


  Your method of gathering the information using this design is to interview, observe and give questionnaires to your respondents.
• Studying the behaviors of twin sisters or twin brothers is an example of a case study.
• Ethnography


  This research design pertains to a cultural group or organization, this a unique study in which the researchers must join or involve themselves in the study to obtain the needed information.
• Ethnography


  In this design, researchers must have to immerse to that certain group of people to witness their behaviors, their ways and means and to deeply know them.
• Ethnography


  Realizing this qualitative research design is living with the subjects in

  several months; hence, this is usually done by anthropologist whose interests basically lie in cultural aspects.
• Learning the lives of Badjaos on how they earn for a living is an example of ethnography.
• Historical Study


  This research design determine the reasons for changes or permanence of things in the physical world in a certain period (i.e., years, decades, or centuries). 
• The scope or coverage of historical study refers to the number of years

  covered, the kind of events focused on, and the extent of new knowledge or discoveries resulting from the historical study.
• To obtain the data needed in a historical study design, the researchers must gather biography/autobiography, read documentaries and chronicling activities to trace the progress of the identified topic or subject.
• A Five –Year Study of the Impact of the K -12 Curriculum on the Philippine Employment System is an example of a historical study.
• Phenomenology


  This research design aims to understand on how people deal with the different experiences in their lives. 
• Phenomenology


  This design is used to study a phenomenon in which all human beings have a tendency to experience it. These maybe of joy, sorrow, death

  of loved ones, victories, defeat and the like.
• To gather information in a phenomenology design, the researcher must have to interview the respondents to listen to their recounts on how they conquered such experiences.
• A Study to the Students who came from an Orphanage is an example of phenomenology.
• Grounded theory


  This research design enables you to develop theories to explain the

  sociological and psychological influenced phenomena for proper identification of a certain educational process.
• Grounded Theory design occurs in an inductive manner, wherein one basic category of people’s action and interactions gets related to a second category; to third category; and so on, until a new theory emerges from the previous data. 
• Collecting data based on grounded theory design is through formal, informal, or semi-structured interview, as well as analysis of written works, notes, phone calls, meeting proceedings and training sessions.
• Experiences of Students Involved in Hard lockdown areas during

  Covid -19 Pandemic is an example of grounded theory