For this Discussion, you will critique a sampling strategy used in a research article.

To prepare for this Discussion:

• Review the Guest, Bunce, and Johnson article; the Yob      and Brewer article; and the Learning Resources related to sampling and      saturation for this week.

Prepare a critique of the sampling strategy used by Yob and Brewer (n.d.). Include the following your critique:

• The purpose of the study
• Research questions
• Site selection
• The type of purposeful sampling strategy the      researchers applied. 
• An alternative sampling strategy that the researchers      could have considered. Explain your choice in terms of how the strategy is      consistent with their research purpose and criteria for selecting cases.
• Provide a data saturation definition and evaluate the      work of the researchers in this article regarding their efforts to achieve      data saturation. Note what the researchers could have done differently to      convince you that the relevant and important themes emerged.

Be sure to support your main post and response post with reference to the week’s Learning Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA style.

Learning Resources

Required Readings

Ravitch, S. M., & Carl, N. M. (2021). Qualitative research: Bridging the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological (2nd ed.) Sage Publications.

• Chapter 4, “Design and Reflexivity      in Data Collection” (pp. 105–122)
• Chapter 5, “Methods of Data      Collection” (pp.124-163)

Rubin, H. J., & Rubin, I. S. (2012). Qualitative interviewing: The art of hearing data (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

• Chapter 3, “Qualitative      Data-Gathering Methods and Style” (previously read in Week 3)

Patton, M. Q. (2015). Chapter 5, Module 30: Purposeful sampling and case selection: Overview of strategies and options. In Qualitative research and evaluation methods (4th ed., pp. 264–315). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Guest, G., Bunce, A., and Johnson, L. (2006). How many Interviews are enough? An experiment with data saturation and variability. Field Methods 18(1), 59–82.

Mason, M. (2010). Sample size and saturation in PhD studies using qualitative interviews. Forum : Qualitative Social Research, 11(3) 

Yob, I., & Brewer, P. (n.d.). Working toward the common good: An online university’s perspectives on social change, 1-25.