Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods by Michael Patton

From the Publisher

"On dissertation proposals on which I have served, Patton is by far the most cited qualitative research text."

Ian Baptiste, Penn State University

The book that has been a resource and training tool for countless applied researchers, evaluators, and graduate students has been completely revised with hundreds of new examples and stories illuminating all aspects of qualitative inquiry. Patton has created the most comprehensive, systematic, and up-to-date review of qualitative methods available.

Corrine Glesne, author of Becoming QualitativeResearchers

The Third Edition has retained and expanded upon the exhibits, which highlight and summarize major issues, guidelines, the summative sections, tables, and figures as well as the sage advice of the Sufi-Zen master, Halcolm. This revision will help readers integrate and make sense of the great volume of qualitative works published in the past decade.

Lester Edwin J. Ruiz, New York Theological Seminar

• Integrates and makes sense of the great volume of qualitative works published in the past decade

• Offers strategies for enhancing quality and credibility of qualitative findings by presenting a new framework for differentiating five contrasting and competing sets of standards for judging the quality and utility of findings

• Unravels the complexities of mixed methods and triangulation

• Explains the new issues and approaches to fieldwork as well as providing detailed analytical guidelines, including software and computer-assisted options

• Explores, compares and contrasts 16 different theoretical and philosophical approaches to qualitative inquiry

• Examines alternative interviewing strategies and approaches, including focus group interviews, group interviews, and cross-cultural interviews

• Identifies the latest Internet resources

• Exhibit Boxes: Summarize and illuminate major points within chapters
• Chapter Opening Stories by Halcolm: Use wit and humor to engage the reader in reflecting upon the puzzles and lessons of qualitative research
• Foundational Questions: Orient the reader to the "meat" of the material being presented
• End of Chapter Appendices: Provide excerpts of detailed examples of particular techniques, such as open-ended interviews, case studies, etc.
• Comparison Tables: Organize, compare and contrast different approaches, strategies, and paradigms
• Original Cartoons: Created from the book's material, illuminate and poke fun at chapter concepts

Product Details

• ISBN: 0761919716
  
• ISBN-13: 9780761919711
• Format: Textbook Hardcover, 688pp
• Publisher: Sage Publications (CA)
• Pub. Date: October 2001
• Edition Description: Third Edition
• Edition Number: 3
• Sales Rank: 11,196

• Table of Contents

Table of Contents