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The essential methods of grounded theory research, beginning with Glaser and Strauss’s seminal work in 1967, are described. These methods include concurrent data collection and analysis, coding of data into concepts and categories, the use of interpretative frameworks, theoretical sampling, memoing, and the integration of categories into grounded theory. Variations in methods developed by second-generation grounded theory researchers are presented in the contexts of their methodological perspectives.
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Teppo, A.R. (2015). Grounded Theory Methods. In: Bikner-Ahsbahs, A., Knipping, C., Presmeg, N. (eds) Approaches to Qualitative Research in Mathematics Education. Advances in Mathematics Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9181-6_1
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