Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches - Hardcover

Creswell, John W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 141296556X ISBN 13: 9781412965569

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2008

Synopsis

The Third Edition of the bestselling text Research Design enables readers to compare three approaches to research - qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods - in a single research methods text. The book presents these three approaches side by side within the context of the process of research from the beginning steps of philosophical assumptions to the writing and presenting of research.

The Third Edition:

- presents the preliminary steps of using philosophical assumptions in the beginning of the book

- provides an expanded discussion on ethical issues

- emphasizes new Web-based technologies for literature searches

- offers updated information about mixed-methods research procedures

- contains a glossary of terms.

About this title

About the Author

John W. Creswell is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He teaches courses on mixed methods research, qualitative inquiry, and general research design. In these three areas, he has authored numerous scholarly journal articles, book chapters and books. He is currently working on his 22^nd book (including new editions), and his books are translated into many languages around the world. At Nebraska he founded the Office of Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research and has held the Clifton Endowed Chair. He also co-founded the SAGE journal, the Journal of Mixed Methods Research, and has been a popular speaker on mixed methods and qualitative research in the US and abroad. As an applied research methodologist, he served as an Adjunct Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan and as a consultant for the VA health services research unit in Ann Arbor, Michigan. As a methodologist, he helped to design the methods for a number of successful NIH and NSF projects. He has been a Senior Fulbright Specialist scholar to both South Africa (2008) and Thailand (2012) lecturing on qualitative and mixed methods approaches to research. Recently, he served as a co-leader of a national working group developing “best practices” for mixed methods research at the National Institutes of Health in the US. Visit him at his Web site: johnwcreswell.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 141296556X
• ISBN 13: 9781412965569
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 296