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Qualitative Research

Online resources to aid in conducting, finding, using, synthesizing, and teaching qualitative research in the health sciences.

What is qualitative research?

Qualitative Research Guidelines Project
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Cochrane Qualitative Research Methods Group
Cochrane Collaboration and Joanna Briggs Institute

Books and Tutorials

Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods
Books from the Duke libaries on Qualitative Research
Educational Research: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Approaches
Methods in Behavioral Research
Supplemental online materials to a textbook, includes notes, quizzes, slides...
Web Center for Social Research Methods
Cornell U.

Research Terminology: Online Glossaries and Dictionaries

Educational Research: Glossary
Univ. of S. Alabama
Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences
Athabasca University