http://clarkhill.org/taxonomy/term/11/0 en http://clarkhill.org/node/64 <p>Qualitative research methods were applied to a set of interviews to produce a grounded theory about how adolescent boys and girls reason about challenging problems in their lives. A metasynthesis is a technique for drawing inferences from similar or related studies; bringing together and examining datasets, discovering essential features, and articulating findings representative of all data. Synthesizing is a methodology that increases the credibility and trustworthiness of qualitative research by data triangulation (Meadows-Oliver, 2003). As such, it is a valuable tool for generating theory about the phenomenon and producing new and integrative interpretation of findings about the constructs that emerge.</p> <br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://clarkhill.org/node/64">read more</a></p> http://clarkhill.org/node/64#comment Metasynthesis Study Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:19:33 -0800 64 at http://clarkhill.org