Qualitative Research MethodsNameAcademic InstitutionCourseInstructorDate Overview: What is Qualitative Research?Qualitative research is a research methodology that relies on meanings, definitions, interpretations, symbols, descriptions, and other forms of data that cannot be reduced to numbers of figures alone (Ravitch & Carl, 2019). Good qualitative research is credible, applicable, replicable, and neutral (Ravitch & Carl, 2019).Qualitative research is one of the three main research methodologies. The other two are Quantitative Research, which relies on objective data that can be quantified, such as number, statistics, and percentages; and Mixed-Methods research, which combines qualitative and quantitative methods. Research principles & Traditions Research Approaches & Designs Qualitative Sampling Methods Common Qualitative Data Collection Methods ReferencesCreswell, J. W., & Creswell, J. D. (2017). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches. Sage publications.Moser, A., & Korstjens, I. (2018). Series: Practical guidance to qualitative research: Sampling, data collection and analysis. European journal of general practice, 24(1), 9-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13814788.2017.1375091Ravitch, S. M., & Carl, N. M. (2019). Qualitative research: Bridging the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological. Sage Publications.Trent, A., & Cho, J. (2020). Interpretation in qualitative research: What, why, how. In The Oxford handbook of qualitative research (pp. 956-982). Oxford University Press.