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Assignment - Annotating and Reviewing Qualitative Research

1. Refer to the readings of Anderson (2017) and Mayer (2015) as key resources to assist you in this assignment. Use other resources to support your assertions.

2. Find 3 primary, peer-reviewed research articles. Each article must be a clear example of qualitative research related to the challenges of higher education in sub-Saharan Africa or organizational leadership in sub-Saharan Africa.

Part I: Annotate each article individually (your annotation should be substantially different from the author's abstract). An annotation is approximately 200 to 500 words. An annotation does not contain your opinion of the article, except as requested in our assignment prompts below. Each annotation should be one paragraph for each article.

1. Provide an APA formatted reference citation for each article that is at the top of the annotation. Along with the APA formatted reference citation (including the doi number), include the "Permalink" for each article cited. If you do not include the "Permalink," the assignment will be returned to you to do so, and you will lose 5% of your grade.

2. What did the author identify as the problem of practice, and why is it a problem?

3. What is the author's purpose for conducting the research?

4. Briefly state what type of data was collected.

5. Who (population/context) was studied? (Give us (briefly) the demographics of those who were studied).

6. What were the results? (Research articles have a results section)

7. What were the implications and recommendations? (Briefly summarize the implications and recommendations).

Part II: Consider the three articles together and discuss how the authors analyzed their data. What details did they include that helped you understand analysis in terms of this week's readings? What details are missing that causes you to be confused? What did you learn about qualitative data analysis from reading these articles? This section should be 2 to 4 paragraphs.