Question

Give an explanation of two criteria for evaluating the quality of qualitative research designs. Next, explain how these criteria are tied to epistemological and ontological assumptions underlying philosophical orientations and the standards of your discipline. Then, identify a potential ethical issue in qualitative research and explain how it might influence design decisions. Finally, explain what it means for a research topic to be amenable to scientific study using a qualitative approach.

Answer 1

Qualitative research design is based a qualitative problem or situation .the mainly reasearch carried out to find the qualitative aspect of subject or a subject 's opinion of people is a qualitative reasearch. It is more used in the area of behavioural science. If a qualitative reasearch design is checked with a criteria of systematic and logical . And avoid the guessing based reasearch design.and next criteria is should be appropriate and adequacy for a particual and suitable design is needed for the better qualitative research design.
The epistemological and ontological assumption based on the philosophical oreintation is very retaled with qualitative and quantitative reasearch .the ontological assumptions it's more linked with the qualitative research design which more focus to people's. Thoughts opinion and interpretation etc.
The epistemological is more specific to the various criteria of checking that qualitative research design and philosophical base of what types of knowledge are available from the reasearch and that how much adequate and legitimate.

The various ethical issues also involved in the research one is bias ,inaqequacy of training of researcher. The honstey and lack of intellectual integrity is also essential issues of the qualitative research.
A qualitative research design or that approach can amendable to scientific study on the opinions and result of qualitative research again tested through scientic methods and tools.