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    Qualitative Research In Education

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    4 pages in length. Choosing an appropriate research model is paramount to revealing the most accurate outcome; while it is critical to uncover data without inadvertent bias or manipulation - an occurrence that can happen with any format - qualitative methodology is especially fitting to draw accurate conclusions where people are the focal point of the study. Qualitative research strives to reach much more deeply into the subject matter than its quantitative counterpart, providing a greater level of understanding pertaining to quality - as with education - that cannot otherwise be disclosed through a research method that studies only quantity. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

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    qualitative methodology is especially fitting to draw accurate conclusions where people are the focal point of the study. Qualitative research strives to reach much more deeply into the subject  matter than its quantitative counterpart, providing a greater level of understanding pertaining to quality - as with education - that cannot otherwise be disclosed through a research method that studies  only quantity. The goal of qualitative research is to find insights into the nature of phenomena and not to generalise numerical data back to underlying parent populations. Further,  in qualitative research, the sample is the population and, rather than the generalisability of their findings, qualitative researchers are much more interested in the transferability (can the insights into these  phenomena be transferred into or across similar settings?) (Curtis, 2007, p. 24). Qualitative research begins with intent to review a certain area  as the researcher collects data and generates hypotheses through observations and/or interviews. These inferences of inductive reasoning lend themselves to the overall strength of qualitative research, which lies in  its validity or closeness to the truth; as such, good qualitative research - by using a diverse number of data collection methods - should actually touch the core of what  is going on rather than just skim the surface of the facts. The validity of qualitative methods is greatly improved upon by using a combination of research methods, a  process known as triangulation (Adami, 2005). Education researchers who choose to use qualitative methods tend to seek a deeper reality, inasmuch as their  aim is to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them [by using] a holistic 

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