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Handbook for Synthesizing Qualitative Research.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (311 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780826156952
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 610.72
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Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions to Publish -- Introduction: Attitudes, Assumptions, and Caveats -- List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Quotations -- Chapter 1 The Urge to Synthesize -- On the Crest of a Wave -- The Debate Over Qualitative Research Synthesis -- Qualitative Research Synthesis as a Contested Site -- Chapter 2 Conceiving the Qualitative Research Synthesis Study -- Qualitative Research Synthesis -- Qualitative Research Synthesis Versus Other Entities -- Formulating Purpose and Rationale -- Accommodating Qualitative Research Synthesis Studies to Available Resources -- Chapter 3 Searching For and Retrieving Qualitative Research Reports -- Setting Parameters for the Search -- Browsing and Berry-Picking -- Fugitive Literature -- Determining Relevance -- Managing Information -- The Dynamics of Searching -- Chapter 4 Appraising Reports of Qualitative Studies -- Individual Appraisal -- Comparative Appraisal -- Appraisal as Foundation for Research Synthesis -- Chapter 5 Classifying the Findings in Qualitative Research Reports -- Rewriting the Text -- The Quality of Qualitative Research -- Empirical/Analytical Versus Constructionist Conceptions of Data and Findings -- Typology of Qualitative Findings -- Chapter 6 Synthesizing Qualitative Research Findings: Qualitative Metasummary -- Qualitative Metasummary -- Chapter 7 Synthesizing Qualitative Research Findings: Qualitative Metasynthesis -- Approaches to Qualitative Metasynthesis -- Chapter 8 Optimizing the Validity of Qualitative Research Synthesis Studies -- Audit Trail -- Negotiated Consensual Validity -- Expert Peer Review -- Chapter 9 Presenting Syntheses of Qualitative Research Findings -- Writing and Representation -- The Elements of a Report of a Qualitative Research Synthesis Study -- Forming the Synthesis -- Innovations in Dissemination.
After Synthesizing Qualitative Research -- Final Words -- Appendix: Reports in the Qualitative Metasynthesis Project -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions to Publish -- Introduction: Attitudes, Assumptions, and Caveats -- List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Quotations -- Chapter 1 The Urge to Synthesize -- On the Crest of a Wave -- The Debate Over Qualitative Research Synthesis -- Qualitative Research Synthesis as a Contested Site -- Chapter 2 Conceiving the Qualitative Research Synthesis Study -- Qualitative Research Synthesis -- Qualitative Research Synthesis Versus Other Entities -- Formulating Purpose and Rationale -- Accommodating Qualitative Research Synthesis Studies to Available Resources -- Chapter 3 Searching For and Retrieving Qualitative Research Reports -- Setting Parameters for the Search -- Browsing and Berry-Picking -- Fugitive Literature -- Determining Relevance -- Managing Information -- The Dynamics of Searching -- Chapter 4 Appraising Reports of Qualitative Studies -- Individual Appraisal -- Comparative Appraisal -- Appraisal as Foundation for Research Synthesis -- Chapter 5 Classifying the Findings in Qualitative Research Reports -- Rewriting the Text -- The Quality of Qualitative Research -- Empirical/Analytical Versus Constructionist Conceptions of Data and Findings -- Typology of Qualitative Findings -- Chapter 6 Synthesizing Qualitative Research Findings: Qualitative Metasummary -- Qualitative Metasummary -- Chapter 7 Synthesizing Qualitative Research Findings: Qualitative Metasynthesis -- Approaches to Qualitative Metasynthesis -- Chapter 8 Optimizing the Validity of Qualitative Research Synthesis Studies -- Audit Trail -- Negotiated Consensual Validity -- Expert Peer Review -- Chapter 9 Presenting Syntheses of Qualitative Research Findings -- Writing and Representation -- The Elements of a Report of a Qualitative Research Synthesis Study -- Forming the Synthesis -- Innovations in Dissemination.

After Synthesizing Qualitative Research -- Final Words -- Appendix: Reports in the Qualitative Metasynthesis Project -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

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