Authors of a paper published in American Psychologist (Levitt et al., 2018) have provided some guidelines and recommendations for reporting qualitative and mixed methods research and qualitative meta studies on behalf the the American Psychological Association (APA).
One of the more interesting of the recommendations in my view was that authors of qualitative research reports be provided with 10 more pages than standard guidelines. This is roughly (based on a DuckDuckGo search) 2500 more words. As a qualitative researcher/author of reports, I appreciate the idea of additional space - although if it is meant to be devoted to methods, I hope that is how authors use this. On the other hand, this seems to suggest that there is not much (or not as much) room needed to describe methods in non-quantitative studies. Given the complexity of many statistical processes, I am not entirely certain that this assumption should be generalized!
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AuthorI am Sheryl L. Chatfield, Ph.D, C.T.R.S. I am a member of the faculty in the College of Public Health at Kent State University. I also Co-coordinate the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research and I am a member of the Design Innovation Team at Kent State. Archives
February 2024
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