There is growing interest in the potential contributions of qualitative research to scholarly inquiry, and what was a quiet and perhaps peripheral aspect of educational research has been moving rapidly toward center stage in recent years. This article identifies two data collection procedures employed in qualitative research and discusses how these procedures can be used to investigate emerging issues in supported education.
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