Evaluating Research Questions and Qualitative Research Designs

Evaluate qualitative research questions in the journal articles below in your discipline
and consider the alignment of theory, problem, purpose, research questions, and design. You will also identify
the type of qualitative research design or approach the authors used and explain how it was implemented.
Narrative, ethnographic, grounded theory, case study, and phenomenology are examples of types of research
designs or approaches used in qualitative research.
Article
Dale, C. M., Angus, J. E., Seto Nielsen, L., Kramer-Kile, M., Pritlove, C., Lapum, J., . . . Clark, A. (2015). “I’m
no Superman”: Understanding diabetic men, masculinity, and cardiac rehabilitation. Qualitative Health
Research, 25(12), 1648–1661. doi:10.1177/1049732314566323
Write a one-page critique of the research study in which you:
• Evaluate the research questions and hypotheses.
The Research Questions and Hypotheses Checklist serves as a guide for your evaluation. Please do not
respond to the checklist in a Yes/No format in writing your paper
• Identify the type of qualitative research approach used and explain how the researchers implemented the
design.
• Analyze alignment among the theoretical or conceptual framework, problem, purpose, research questions,
and design
Required Readings
Babbie, E. (2017). Basics of social research (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
• Chapter 10, “Qualitative Field Research”
Burkholder, G. J., Cox, K. A., Crawford, L. M., & Hitchcock, J.H. (Eds.) (2020). Research design and methods:
An applied guide for the scholar-practitioner. SAGE Publications, Inc.
• Chapter 6, "Qualitative Research Designs"