Qualitative Research Methods
Final Project Bibliography Checklist
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapter 5: Writing the Research Proposal and Chapter 8: Qualitative Research Methods from your textbook Practical Research: Planning and Design. Additionally, refer to the final project description for your Research Proposal Project in Week 6 to ensure that the articles you are selecting are appropriate for this final project.
Select five articles that you might be considering using in your final project Research Proposal Project. The articles should not be older than five years and must be scholarly, peer-reviewed articles. The Writing Center resource Choosing the Best Sources and Evidence (Links to an external site.) may be helpful when selecting your articles. Summarize the articles in one paragraph each, then refer to the Week 2 Checklist Download Week 2 Checklist, and complete checklist questions for each of the five articles.
Your submission must list the APA reference above each of the article summaries like you would see in an annotated bibliography. Here is a resource to demonstrate the layout of an Annotated Bibliography (Links to an external site.) :
The Final Project Bibliography Checklist learning activity will be submitted to a Canvas dropbox. The checklist must be two to three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style (Links to an external site.) as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft Word (Links to an external site.) . The checklist must utilize Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) and two scholarly sources (see Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) for assistance). The scholarly sources need to be formatted in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.) guide, and the separate references page should be formatted according to the APA: Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource.
Here are the five scholarly articles to use
1 Devakumar, D., Palfreyman, A., Uthayakumar-Cumarasamy, A., Ullah, N., Ranasinghe, C., Minckas, N., Nadkarni, A., Oram, S., Osrin, D., & Mannell, J. (2021). Mental health of women and children experiencing family violence in conflict settings: a mixed methods systematic review. Conflict & Health, 15(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13031-021-00410-4
2 Anderson, K. M., Renner, L. M., & Danis, F. S. (2012). Recovery: Resilience and Growth in the Aftermath of Domestic Violence. Violence Against Women, 18(11), 1279–1299. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801212470543
3 Flasch, P., Murray, C. E., & Crowe, A. (2017). Overcoming Abuse: A Phenomenological Investigation of the Journey to Recovery From Past Intimate Partner Violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 32(22), 3373–3401. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260515599161
4 Nicky Stanley, Pam Miller, Helen Richardson Foster, Gill Thomson, A Stop–Start Response: Social Services’ Interventions with Children and Families Notified following Domestic Violence Incidents, The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 41, Issue 2, March 2011, Pages 296–313, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcq071
5 Rachel Robbins, Kate Cook, ‘Don’t Even Get Us Started on Social Workers’: Domestic Violence, Social Work and Trust—An Anecdote from Research, The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 48, Issue 6, September 2018, Pages 1664–1681, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcx125
Week 2 Checklist
Evaluating a Research Article 1. In what journal or other source did you find the article? Was it reviewed by experts in the field before it was published? That is, was the article in a Peer-reviewed publication? 2. Does the article have a stated research problem or question? That is, can you determine the focus of the author’s work? 3. Does the article contain a section that describes and integrates previous studies on this topic? In what ways is this previous work relevant to the author’s research problem or question? 4. If new data were collected, can you describe how they were collected and how they were analyzed? Do you agree with what was done? If you had been the researcher, what additional things might you have done? 5. Did the author explain procedures clearly enough that you could repeat the work and get similar results? What additional information might be helpful or essential for you to replicate the study? 6. Do you agree with the author’s interpretations and conclusions? Why or why not? 7. Is the article logically organized and easy to follow? What could have been done to improve its organization and readability? 8. Finally, think about the entire article. What is, for you, most important? What do you find most interesting? What do you think are the strengths and weaknesses of this article? Will you remember this article in the future? Why or why not?
Required Resources
Texts
Leedy, P. D. & Ormrod, J. E. (2019). Practical research: Planning and design (12th ed.). Pearson.
· Chapter 5: Writing the Research Proposal
· Chapter 8: Qualitative Research Methods
· The full-text version of this ebook is available in your online classroom through the RedShelf platform. Chapter 5: Writing the Research Proposal provides the characteristics of a good research proposal and strategies for writing and revising your proposal, and Chapter 8 identifies situations for qualitative methodology, data collection strategies, and methods to evaluate and enhance credibility of data. Chapter 5: Writing the Research Proposal will assist you in your Prescriptive Approaches discussion forum, while both Chapter 5: Writing the Research Proposal and Chapter 8: Qualitative Research Methods will assist in your Qualitative Research and Needs Assessment quiz and Final Project Bibliography Checklist learning activity this week.
Netting, F. E., O’Conner, M. K., & Fauri, D. P. (2008). Comparative approaches to program planning . Wiley.
· Chapter 3: Rational Planning and Prescriptive Approaches
· The full-text version of this ebook is available in your online classroom through the RedShelf platform. Chapter 3 discusses rational planning and prescriptive approaches as both a decision and an activity process. The chapter also breaks down the dimensions of rational planning and prescriptive approaches into five categories: needs assessment, problem identification, intervention strategies, goals and objectives, and the decision-making behind program design. This chapter will assist you in your Prescriptive Approaches discussion forum this week.
Multimedia
CHOP Program Planning & Evaluation. (2011, October 31). Chapter 2: Conducting a community needs assessment: Part 1 (Links to an external site.) [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/624PSllFWsA
· This video answers the questions: what is a needs assessment and why is it valuable and helpful? This video will assist you in your Qualitative Research and Needs Assessment quiz this week. This video has closed captioning and a transcript. Accessibility Statement (Links to an external site.) Privacy Policy (Links to an external site.)
Recommended Resources
Book
Merriam, S. B., & Grenier, R. S. (Eds.). (2019). Qualitative research in practice: Examples for discussion and analysis (Links to an external site.) (2nd ed.). Jossey-Bass.
· Introduction to Qualitative Research
· The full-text version of this book is available through the Ebook Central database in the University of Arizona Global Campus Library. This book provides information about qualitative research methodology and may assist you in your Qualitative Research and Needs Assessment quiz and Final Project Bibliography Checklist learning activity this week.
Articles
Baxter, P., & Jack, S. (2008). Qualitative case study methodology: Study design and implementation for novice researchers (Links to an external site.) . The Qualitative Report, 13 (4), 544–559. http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR13-4/baxter.pdf
· This article provides information about qualitative research for novice researchers and may assist you in your Qualitative Research and Needs Assessment quiz and Final Project Bibliography Checklist learning activity this week. Accessibility Statement (Links to an external site.) Privacy Policy (Links to an external site.)
Heath, A. W. (1997). The proposal in qualitative research (Links to an external site.) . The Qualitative Report , 3 (1), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/1997.2026
· This article provides information about writing a qualitative proposal and may assist you in your Qualitative Research and Needs Assessment quiz and Final Project Bibliography Checklist learning activity this week.A Accessibility Statement (Links to an external site.) Privacy Policy (Links to an external site.)
Meyer, A. E., Reilly, E. E., Daniel, K. E., Hollon, S. D., Jensen-Doss, A., Mennin, D. S., Muroff, J., Schuler, T. A., White, B. A., & Teachman, B. A. (2020). Characterizing evidence-based practice and training resource barriers: A needs assessment (Links to an external site.) . Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 14 (3), 200–208. https://doi.org/10.1037/tep0000261
· The full-text version of this article is available through the APA PsycArticles database in the University of Arizona Global Campus Library. This article provides information about needs assessment and may assist you in your Qualitative Research and Needs Assessment quiz this week.
Rosetti, C. W., & Henderson, S.J. (2013). Lived experiences of adolescents with learning disabilities (Links to an external site.) . The Qualitative Report, 18 (24), 1–17. http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR18/rosetti47.pdf
· This article provides information about qualitative research and will assist you in your Qualitative Research and Needs Assessment quiz and Final Project Bibliography Checklist learning activity this week.
Multimedia
University of Arizona Global Campus Library. (n.d.). Literature review research (Links to an external site.) [Video]. https://content.bridgepointeducation.com/curriculum/file/adf48716-2d1a-4a72-a1d0-f7f1c7fc2279/1/Literature%20Review%20Research.zip/story_html5.html
· This video provides information about qualitative research methodology and may assist you in your Qualitative Research and Needs Assessment quiz and Final Project Bibliography Checklist learning activity this week.
