Creswell

paperwork (almost 400 pages) Fairly easy to read and thorough understanding of each method: 1. Narrative 2. Phenomenological 3. Grounded Theory 4. Ethnographic 5. Case Study Also provides sample studies of each Chapter on data collection Chapter on Data analysis Chapter on writing a qualitative study Chapter on validation Throughout the text he compares the methods
 * Creswell, J. (2007) Qualitative inquiry & research design: Choosing among five approaches. Sage.**

This is a text that one would have in a course (almost 700 pages) The text is divided into three parts: 1. An introduction to education research and explanation of quantitative vs. qualitative. This section includes sample quantitative and qualitative studies. 2. Part II includes 8 steps in the process of research. 3. Part 3 is all about research design:
 * Creswell, J. (2008). Educational research: Planning conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research.**
 * Identifying the problem
 * Doing a Lit review
 * purpose and research questions
 * collecting quantitative data
 * analyzing quantitative data
 * collecting qualitative data
 * analyzing qualitative data
 * reporting and evaluating research
 * experimental, correlational, survey, grounded theory, ethnographic, narrative, mixed, and action research