Final Project

Congratulations on reaching the last step of your Final Project! The Final Project is a stepwise process, and its goal is to leave you well-prepared by the end of this course to execute on your qualitative research study plan. By now, you have completed the steps of this course that are good practice for developing a high-quality qualitative research study.

The Final Project: Building a Qualitative Research Plan document in the Learning Resources contain the instructions for organizing the work you produced in Steps I through V. Be sure to incorporate revisions to your work based on feedback from your Instructor and classmates.

Below is the appropriate heading that are needed.

Title Page (heading not required)

Introduction (add introductory paragraph)

Problem Statement (in-text citations required to support that there is an issue)

Purpose Statement (in-text citations required to support that the purpose aligns with the problem)

Literature Review (this is a synthesis of your sources that were used to identify the problem, indicated the need for the research, indicated the gap in the current research, and discussed and justified the chosen framework)

Annotated Bibliography

NOTE

• 10+ scholarly articles related to your research topic
• Same guidelines used in your Intro to Qual course in a prior semester
• Do not copy and paste the article abstract
• This is not a references list but is a critical assessment of each article.

Summary of the article (not the abstract)

Relevance to your study

Credibility of the Author(s) and Publisher

• Include the three subheadings listed above and repeat them for each article)

Framework (theoretical or conceptual, detailed) (in-text citations required to support alignment of the framework to the research problem)

Research Questions (keep alert to the use of qualitative phrasing)

Research Design (include introductory paragraph) (all below subheadings must contain in-text citations that align with the best practices of the chosen methodology)

Methodology (indicate and justify the specific qualitative approach, e.g. phenomenology, case study, narrative, etc)

Justification

Researcher Role

Participant Selection (do not use your two class participants – indicate the ideal participants instead but use your class transcripts for the coding)

Target Population (identify using exclusion and inclusion criteria for your ideal participants)

Sampling Strategy (how will participants from the above target population be selected – do not use the class process, indicate how you would do it for the dissertation)

Sample Size (justify according to chosen method approach) (e.g. if phenomenology, indicate acceptable sample size according to best practices for phenomenology)

Participant Recruitment (indicate the ideal process for recruiting participants for your dissertation study; do not use recruitment for the class interviews)

Invitation Protocol

Instrumentation (in what ways and what tools, materials, and/or assessments will be used to attract, verify, and assess potential participants)

Interview Guide Overview (submit final interview guide as an appendix to this document) (Keep alert to interview question qualitative phrasing, especially focusing on open-ended questions) (label it Appendix A) (Subsequent appendices B, C, etc, if any, can also be added. This would be for longer content, such as extensive code and category lists, charts, etc)

Rigor and Credibility

Other Data Sources

Data Collection (do not refer to the class process. Instead, create the ideal data collection process as if you collected data for your dissertation)

Where collected

How Collected

Duration

Data Recording

Debriefing (debriefing of the research design by peers; use classmate debriefing of your collection and analysis materials)

Ethical Procedures

Data Analysis (compile and aggregate all data sources (interviews, videos, Walden Social Change website, memos, journaling/field notes, observations, etc as part of the analysis, not just the two class interviews)

Summarize Analysis Plan

Manual or Software Coding (describe the options, indicate the chosen option, and justify its choice for your chosen study)

Indicate Codes and Categories (include quoted content to support choices of codes and categories)

Codes (list each code in a table and add representative quotes from the data sources for each code)

Categories (create various code groupings in a table that have similar meanings and then create a representative category name for each grouping, e.g. Codes belongingness, comfortable, and caring could be grouped under a category name of ‘sense of community’) (justify the choice of category label with quoted content from the sources)

Trustworthiness (of your project) ((summary paragraph that introduces the below items) for each of the below, describe the item and then demonstrate how your ideal project could meet or not meet the definition. Use in-text citations)

Credibility

Transferability

Dependability

Confirmability

Social Change Alignment (a short essay in which you describe the connection between your project and social change)

Major Learning Points

Dissertation Next Steps

Course Reflection

References

I have attached all assignments that have lead up to this one. Please go through and add/fix what needs to be by following the headings above. In the file will have the feedback under each assignment that was completed if there was any feedback. The topic needs to be followed. If you have any questions please reach out.