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    Freshmen Students Facing Depressive Symptoms During the Transition into a University Atmosphere Question 1: What characteristics of the report you located you to believe that is an example of qualitative research? This report uses a mixed method which includes both qualitative and quantitative research. This was done by an analysis of student’s profiles and interviews (Whitehill, Brockman, and Moreno, 2013, p. 122). The profiles they selected were public and of freshmen who were a part of a large university

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    Qualitative research plays an important role in evidenced base practice. Qualitative research often lay down the platform for added official quantitative studies or a follow up to a broad quantitative study. Qualitative research is a subjective design that investigate exceptional life concepts in a naturalistic setting using narrative descriptions as the findings (Polit & Beck, 2017). There are six general types of qualitative research designs namely phenomenological, ethnographic, historical, grounded

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    Introduction Qualitative research plays an important role in evidenced-based practice. Qualitative research often lay down the platform for added official quantitative studies or a follow up to a broad quantitative study. Qualitative research is a subjective design that investigates exceptional life concepts in a naturalistic setting using narrative descriptions as the findings (Polit & Beck, 2017). There are six general types of qualitative research designs, namely phenomenological, ethnographic

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    Section Two: Primary Research Background Having extensively conducted our Secondary research from various reliable sources in section one, we felt a need to also obtain primary research. Because secondary research tends to be less accurate, due to it being based on other people’s studies and works. While primary research allows us to conclude more specific results tailored to our research needs. Our research is focused on Babson students, we needed to make sure that the research conducted in section

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    Methodology Online interviews: a list of questions relevant to the research topic shall be prepared by the research team. The questions will revolve around the strategies that small businesses can employ to gain a large customer base. Online interviews can be done through computer systems like Skype, IMO and also through telephone calls (McMunn 23). This method is very efficient because the research team can deal with a big number of people at the convenience of one’s location without the participants

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    PARTICIPATION REFLECTION The study I chose to participate in was “Handbags! Showy and Blingy, or Subtle and Confident?” I selected this particular study because I thought it would be interesting and relates to my personal habits. Two bags were shown on the screen, one “showy” and one “plain”. A Likert scale response system was used, rating how I felt about the bag on a scale of 1 to 7. This was an easy response system, and I found this as a positive experience. At the end of the questionnaire

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    from anthropology and sociology where the researcher studies the common forms of a person’s actions,vocabulary, and movements of a complete social cluster in an ordinary location over a lengthy period of time. Documents gathering often includes clarifications and dialogues(Creswell, 2014).A qualitative researcher uses ordinary locations, they are the main mechanism, collects numerous origin of evidence, uses inductive and deductive statistics study, put emphasis on contributors’ significance, has a

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    environment they learn, play, and grow in. I analyzed two different research studies, one quantitative and one qualitative, to compare and contrast both research methods. Qualitative research refers to an analysis method that collects descriptive (non-numerical) data, such as words, images, and objects, whereas quantitative research is used to test a hypothesis and look at the cause and effect of a prediction. Quantitative research collects numerical data or statistics from questionnaires and surveys

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    CASE STUDY APPROACH IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Introduction Miles and Huberman (1994) present a graphic meaning of a case study by suggesting that it is like a circle with a heart in the middle (see Figure 5.1). The heart is the focus of the study, while the circle defines the edge or boundary of the case. What is beyond the edge or boundary will not be studied. In other words, to qualify as a case study, you have to state the boundary or delimit what you want to study. For example, you have

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    Research is a part of life; it doesn’t matter what you do or where you are you take part in investigating in all the areas of life. There are different designs to research a certain topic. The three designs are qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research. I will be discussing the three different research designs and how they are used to gather data for a certain study. Qualitative research is used when trying to investigate an issue or concern by using interviews, studying the setting of

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