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QUALITATIVE MINI-PROPOSAL
Descriiption
As a counselor, you will regularly use professional literature to inform your work. Many of the important questions that you will have as your career evolves will be answered by researchers conducting qualitative studies. The qualitative designs permit researchers to answer questions that cannot be answered by quantitative designs, by examining people’s subjective worlds as directly as possible, through their own narratives.
For this assignment, you will create a mini research proposal. As you work through the activities relevant to qualitative research concepts, think through a possible qualitative study. Your work on this assignment will demonstrate that you understand the importance of the alignment of the elements of a study and how they work together.
Preparation
In preparation for this assignment, think about a problem in counseling practice that could be researched using a qualitative approach. Then, find three recent empirical sources that support your study of the problem. You may also wish to find a non-empirical source. The Counseling: Masters Research Guide can help you with your library search.
Instructions and Grading Criteria
Create a mini research proposal that addresses the problem that you identified, using the Week 8 Assignment Template [DOCX]. Your proposal must include the elements listed below each numbered grading criterion, so be sure to address each point. You may also want to review the performance-level descriiptions for each criterion in the scoring guide to see how your work will be assessed.
Synthesize scholarly literature that supports the study of a research problem.
Write a mini literature review of three recent empirical sources (required) and one non-empirical source (optional).
Create a qualitative research question that is aligned to a research problem.
This specific question should be written in a way that it could be answered through qualitative data; this is the question that will be answered by the proposed study.
Identify a research design for a qualitative study.
Describe the research design for the proposed study.
Choose from case study, ethnography, phenomenology, and grounded theory.
Provide a rationale as to why this particular design is a good fit for your study.
Describe an appropriate sampling strategy for a qualitative study.
Describe your proposed sampling method, including a rationale for the sample you chose and how many participants would comprise the sample.
Detail data collection strategies and sources that address a research question.
Identify the data that you would collect in your study.
Explain how you would collect the qualitative data that would answer your research question.
Explain a qualitative data analysis strategy that aligns to the research problem.
Explain how you would analyze the data that you collected based upon your research question and the type of data that will be collected.
Describe ethical and cultural concerns in the proposed qualitative study.
Identify at least one ethical and at least one cultural concern that may be present in the proposed study.
Describe how mixed methods might be applied to address the research problem.
Describe how the problem that you investigated might be addressed by using a mixed-methods approach.
Explain whether you believe that would be a stronger approach or not, in this particular situation.
Communicate effectively in appropriate form and style, using APA guidelines for grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
Submission Requirements
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
Length: 4–6 pages, in addition to a cover page and reference page.
APA style: Include a reference page in the current APA style at the end of your paper.
Number of references: Minimum of three peer-reviewed empirical journal articles that are no more than five years old.