Grounded theory is a qualitative research method that was developed in 1967 by Glaser and Strauss. It involves collecting and analyzing data to build theories grounded in or based on the data. The key aspects of grounded theory include collecting data through methods like interviews and observations, coding the data to identify concepts and categories, and using constant comparison to develop and relate categories into a theoretical framework that explains processes in the data. Grounded theory aims to generate theories that are faithful to and emerge from the context and perspectives of participants.

2. Presented By
Maryam Pervaiz
MS Education, 2nd
Semester

3.  Research is a systematized effort to
gain new facts.”(Kumar yougesh, 2006).
 Searching again and again

4.  Published in 1967 by Glaser and Strauss
 Study of concept
 Systematic procedure
 Develop higher level understanding
that is “grounded” in
 Aims to explain a process, not to test
existing theory

5.  Specific not generalize
 Use multiple coding
 Building theory from data

6.  When you need explanation of a
process
 When current theories about a
phenomena are either inadequate or
non existent
 When you wish to study some process
such as how students developed as a
writer

8.  Contextualized social processes.
 Produce theories that are truly grounded in
the data
 Grounded theory is what is, not what should
 Aims to produce is knowledge of processes
that reside in the data

9.  Interested in the ways in which human
actors negotiate social situations
 ‘The world’ that is studied by grounded
theorists is very much a product of human
contribution and compromise.
 This is what grounded theory attempts to do
by focusing on ‘process’ and ‘change

10.  Researcher acts as a witness (observes
carefully)
 Not to import his or her own assumptions
 Aim is to develop theories that do not move
beyond the data

11.  Interview
 Historical records
 Video tapes
 Documents
 Observations

12.  The key points are marked with a series
of code
 Codes are grouped into similar
concepts
 From these concepts categories are
formed
 These categories are the basis of
creating of a new theory

13.  Open coding
 Constant comparison
 Axial Coding
 Memoing
 Theoretical sampling
 Selective coding
 Theoretical coding

14.  Whether grounded theory design is
best suited for the study
 Reviewing existing literature
 Identifying crucial research questions
 Cases are selected through theoretical
sampling
 Collects the data

15.  Identifying concepts through data
collection
 Make categories and sub categories
 Develop visual model
 Writes a story line connecting
categories
 Final result of data collection is theory

16.  Emergent theory is now compared with
literature
 This theory may be tested later for
empirical verification using
quantitative research

17.  It is inductive, contextual and process
based in nature
 The probability of measurement error
is reduced since its starts at the
empirical level and ends at conceptual
level.

18.  Emphasis on empirically derived
concepts which makes it difficult to use
abstract concepts and thus limits
theorizing to a certain extent
 Data are collected from a specific
location, genralisability to another
place is difficult.

19.  Risk of finding something that is not
new
 Time consuming

20. Conclusion