Descriptions of sampling practices within five approaches to qualitative research in education and the health sciences

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Guetterman, Timothy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Case study; Choosing cases; Ethnography; Grounded theory methodology; Narrative inquiry; Phenomenology; Qualitative inquiry; Qualitative sample size; Qualitative sampling; Saturation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930682042     PISSN: 14385627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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