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qualitative

(kwol'i-ta?tiv) [L. qualitativus]

Referring to the quality of anything.

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The qualitative study of online communication management is done by considering content management and interaction management.

Interestingly, in order to provide a more fine-grained insight into the potential and limitations of quantitative and qualitative approaches, the author has decided to present an in-depth analysis of two well-received studies on crowdsourcing representing opposite epistemological stances.

Editorial Paper: Exploring Management Through Qualitative Research --Introductory Remarks

As Sandelowski (5) points out, qualitative description is a distributed residual category and, as such, it makes visible the "porous lines between qualitative and quantitative description (...) and between the erosion and re-invention of method" (p.

Figure depicts this whole process of sampling within the context of using a survey as a qualitative descriptive tool to study public policies across countries.

The Qualitative Descriptive Approach in International Comparative Studies: Using Online Qualitative Surveys

Another aspect related to qualitative research is that of reliability and validity of study findings.

In qualitative research, findings or the description of a phenomenon should accurately resemble the actual phenomenon (Morse, 2015).

Focusing on the Fundamentals: Reading Qualitative Research with a Critical Eye

In order to be possible for qualitative reasoning, variables must be restricted to correspond to functions of time whose behavior is reasonable.

Qualitative Reasoning for Quantitative Simulation

TO STABLISH OR NOT TO STABLISH STANDARDS FOR DESIGNING AND EVALUATING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH?

GUIDELINES FOR QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN ORGANIZATION STUDIES: CONTROVERSY AND POSSIBILITIES/DIRETRIZES PARA PESQUISAS QUALITATIVAS EM ESTUDOS ORGANIZACIONAIS: CONTROVERSIAS E POSSIBILIDADES

The problem with Epistemology and Metaphysics for Qualitative Research is that the connection to qualitative research is never made.

Pernecky, Tomas. Epistemology and Metaphysics for Qualitative Research

Throughout the technical presentations on advances in qualitative simulation, we discussed the practicality of automatically transforming quantitative and qualitative models during the course of reasoning.

Qualitative reasoning: everyday, pervasive, and moving forward--a report on QR-15

The purpose of qualitative research, as is the case with any research, is to provide unbiased and reliable information in a format that is relevant and meaningful to the target audience (Denzin & Lincoln, 2005).

Five qualitative research approaches and their applications in parapsychology/Fuenf qualitatve forschungszugaenge und ihre anwendungen in der parapsychologie/Cinco enfoques de investigacion cualitativa y sus aplicaciones a la parapsicologia/Cinq approches de recherche qualitatives et leurs applications en parapsychologie

It also means that we design qualitative approaches that allow us to capture unanticipated data (Becker, 1996) by opening up opportunities for thinking about and assessing student learning differently.

To learn more about learning: the value-added role of qualitative approaches to assessment