Research Design - International Student Edition

John W. Creswell, PhD, is a Professor of Family Medicine and Senior Research Scientist ofthe Michigan Mixed Methods Program. He has authored numerous articles and 34 books onmixed methods research, qualitative research, and research design. While at the University ofNebraska–Lincoln, he held the Clifton Endowed Professor Chair, served as Director of theMixed Methods Research Office, co-founded SAGE’s Journal of Mixed Methods Research, andwas an Adjunct Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan and a consultant tothe Veterans Administration Health Services Research Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He wasa Senior Fulbright Scholar to South Africa in 2008 and to Thailand in 2012. In 2011, he co-leda National Institutes of Health working group on the “best practices of mixed methods researchin the health sciences,” served as a Visiting Professor at Harvard’s School of Public Health andreceived an honorary doctorate from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. In 2014, he wasthe founding President of the Mixed Methods International Research Association. In 2015, hejoined the staff of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan to Co-Direct the MichiganMixed Methods Program. In 2017, he coauthored the American Psychological Association“standards” on qualitative and mixed methods research. The fourth edition of this book onQualitative Inquiry & Research Design won the 2018 McGuffey Longevity Award from the U.S.Textbook & Academic Authors Association. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he gave virtualkeynote presentations to many countries from his office in Osaka, Japan. Updates on his workcan be found on his website at johnwcreswell.com.

A lively, readable and above all indubitably well informed account of the knowledge and skills required to develop a logical research design in activation of an achievable and worthwhile piece of empirical research. If research design didn′t exist, I would trust John and David Creswell to invent it!

• Analytic Contents of Research TechniquesPrefaceCompanion WebsiteAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorsPART I PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONSChapter 1 The Selection of a Research ApproachChapter 2 Review of the LiteratureChapter 3 The Use of TheoryChapter 4 Writing Strategies and Ethical ConsiderationPART II DESIGNING RESEARCHChapter 5 The IntroductionChapter 6 The Purpose StatementChapter 7 Research Questions and HypothesesChapter 8 Quantitative MethodsChapter 9 Qualitative MethodsChapter 10 Mixed Methods ProceduresGlossaryReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index