Qualitative Research in Health Care http://www.bmjpg.com/qrhc/contents.html From BMJ. On line text, with chapters on interviewing, focus groups, observational methods, analyzing qualitative data. The hyperlinks to footnotes and tables don't work right. The footnotes and tables are all at the end of the chapters.
USAID EVALUATION PUBLICATIONS http://www.info.usaid.gov/pubs/usaid_eval/ They have a number of text and pdf files, about qualitative methods, including Conducting Key Informant Interviews, Using Direct Observation Techniques, Conducting Focus Group Interviews. These files are in their Performance Monitoring and Evaluation TIPS section.
Qualitative Research in
Information Systems http://www.auckland.ac.nz/msis/isworld/
This page "aims to provide qualitative
researchers in IS - and those wanting to know how to do qualitative research
- with useful information on the conduct, evaluation and publication of
qualitative research."
Introduction to Social Work Research http://pweb.sophia.ac.jp/~t-oka/papers/2000/qrsw/qrsw.html really an introduction to qualitative methods. What is qualitative research, how to do and analyze.
Qualitative Research Resources http://don.ratcliff.net/qual/ created by Don Ratcliff, Ph.D. Chapters on role of researcher, sampling, data collection, data analysis. Also links to other qual resources.
The qualitative report http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/index.html edited on line journal about qualitative research. See a section, Practicing Qualitative Research http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/practice.html also see syllabi and other links.
Qualitative research methods in health technology assessment: a review of the literature http://www.hta.nhsweb.nhs.uk/execsumm/SUMM216.HTM This is the summary. Can download the entire report.
Qualitative Methods Workbook http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/qualmeth.html by George Boeree. Broad look at qualitative methods including phenomenology, structural analysis, observation and interviewing.
Introduction to qualitative
research http://www.uea.ac.uk/care/elu/Issues/Research/Res1Cont.html
introduction, and also evaluation research.
Ethnography - observation in the field
How to Do Ethnographic Research: A Simplified Guide http://www.sas.upenn.edu/anthro/CPIA/methods.html like it says, a basic guide to doing ethnographic research.
A Handbook of Ethnography http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/VSOC/Handbook/Handbook.html a handbook of ethnomethodology (also known as participant observation). Very nice overview and intro to the methods, except that on their 'practical matters' page, they say not to read any methods books before doing ethno research. What I think they really mean is don't get so over-worried about following all the research 'rules' that you don't do any research.
Fieldwork: the anthropologist in the field http://www1.truman.edu/academics/ss/faculty/tamakoshil/ Overview and review of fieldwork method and issues involved.
A SYNTHESIS OF ETHNOGRAPHIC
RESEARCH http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~genzuk/Ethnographic_Research.html
This is an overview.
Interviewing
Introduction to Interviewing Techniques http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/IGSD/IQPHbook/ch11.html#11 part of a handbook for iqp advisors and students, but useful for everyone. Follow the chapter by clicking on 'forward' or see detailed table of contents at http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/IGSD/IQPHbook/tocdetail.html This chapter is a basic introduction to interviews and focus groups.
key informant interviewing
http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/~PPA/KeyInform.htm
brief information sheets from University of Illinois Extension. 'How
to' advice.
Interviewing - Oral History
Oral History: Techniques and Procedures http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/oral.htm by Stephen E. Everett. Designed for military interviews, but parts apply to anyone doing interviews. See Part II: The Spoken Word in Peacetime, that has information, for example, on contacting interviewee, conducting background research, conducting the interview.
Oral History http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/oral/century/oral.shtml
like it says, a guide to doing oral history. How to get family, community,
other kinds of history from people.
Focus groups
USING FOCUS GROUPS TO CREATE EXCELLENCE http://child.cornell.edu/army/focus.html introduction and some main points to doing focus groups. Developed by the Army for a prevention campaign, but useful for anyone to review.
Market Navigation, Inc. http://www.mnav.com/qualitative_research.htm Articles about focus groups.
Social Research Updates
http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/sru/SRU19.html
review of focus groups, issues, potentials, limitations.
Action research
Action research International
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arhome.html
has many other useful information, including Convergent Interviewing http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arp/iview.html
a Resource paper in Action Research, a technique for qualitative data collection.
How to do interviewing. By Bob Dick. See other resource
papers, and the FAQ page about action research http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arp/arfaq.html
Center
for Action Research in Professional Practice http://www.bath.ac.uk/carpp/carpp.htm
see their papers and publications page http://www.bath.ac.uk/carpp/papers.htm
with such papers as "Handbook of Action Research Introduction: Inquiry &
participation in search of a world worthy of human aspiration" and
"Layperson's guide to co-operative enquiry". Not necessarily a method
as an approach.
other stuff
Qualitative Methods in Health Services Research http://www.ahcpr.gov/about/cods/codsqual.htm describes a special supplement to the journal Health Services Research (HSR). This supplement describes a conference with the goal of advancing the field's understanding and use of qualitative methods in order to answer the most pressing health services research and policy questions. I believe the publication number is OM99-0019. They have a limited number of free copies. Check the clearinghouse at http://www.ahcpr.gov/research/dec99/order.htm#clear
Overview of content analysis http://ericae.net/pare/getvn.asp?v=7&n=17 An article in Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation http://ericae.net/pare/
Latent Semantic Analysis http://lsa.colorado.edu/ This method "captures the essential relationships between text documents and word meaning, or semantics, the knowledge base which must be accessed to evaluate the quality of content." This site has some theory, research and application of this method.
Qualitative research http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/pract_res.html really a list of links, but links to very interesting articles about qualitative research, methods, and theory and why. One example is "qualitative research issues and methods" at http://www.aect.org/Intranet/Publications/edtech/40/index.html kind of a lit review and introduction. Other papers review state of qual methods, various kinds of qual methods, etc.
