Research Prospectus

Week 7 – Assignment: Signature Assignment: Justify Your Qualitative Research Design Rationale

Instructions:

In this assignment, you will review the template for the research prospectus and then draft a qualitative research method and design rationale typical to what would be presented in a Method and Design section of the research prospectus in your future CMP-9601E or CMP-9701E course. Be sure to revisit the prior assignments submitted for each of these study design components and the sources cited previously as you draft this rationale.

The rationale must describe and cite scholarly sources to support justification for each of the following components:

1. Justification for the choice of the qualitative method to examine an educational research problem.

2. Justification for the choice of research design as appropriately aligned with the qualitative method.

3. Justification for the choice of sampling method and sample size as aligned with the conventions of qualitative research and the specific research design proposed.

4. Justification for the choice of data collection method as aligned with the conventions of qualitative research and the specific research design proposed.

5. Justification for the choice of data analysis method as aligned with the conventions of qualitative research and the specific research design proposed.

6. Describe the qualitative analysis software application to be used for the proposed for the data analysis method proposed.

Length: 2-3 pages (does not include title page and References pages)

References: A minimum of 4 scholarly research guides or scholarly articles specific to the selected research design must be used to support the choices made and the rationale presented. Avoid general scholarly research guides such as Creswell or Trochim, and instead, utilize sources specific to the qualitative research design selected for the rationale.