scholarly journals On the Same Page: A Formal Process for Training Multiple Interviewers

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Training Models ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies ◽  
Research Assistants

The increased utilization of qualitative methodologies as part of mixed-method health and social science research has highlighted the need for training procedures for every stage of qualitative data collection and analysis. Yet, few group training models exist for collecting reliable, valid qualitative interview data. This article presents a multi-stage, collaborative interview training process for a large team of research assistants. The training program combines insights and techniques used in both structured and semi-structured interviewing. It also includes ongoing instruction and feedback prior to and during data collection in an effort to ensure consistency and reliability. In the article, I describe each stage of the training program in detail, review some of the challenges encountered during implementation, and conclude with a discussion of how researchers and course instructors might adapt the methods to fit their particular needs.

Video-Conferencing Interviews in Qualitative Research

2015 ◽  
pp. 140-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly Nehls ◽  
Brandy D. Smith ◽  
Holly A. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Video Conferencing ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Qualitative Data Collection

This chapter synthesizes the literature on real-time, synchronous, video interviews as a qualitative data collection method. The authors specifically focus on the advantages and disadvantages of this method in social science research and offer conceptual themes, practical techniques, and recommendations for using video-interviews. The growing popularity of computer-mediated communication indicates that a wider audience will be willing and able to participate in research using this method; therefore, online video-conferencing could be considered a viable option for qualitative data collection.

scholarly journals Video Use in Social Science Research and Program Evaluation

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 22-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Rosenstein
Keyword(s):  
Program Evaluation ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Video Observation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Situational Assessment ◽  
Giving Feedback

In light of technological advances in producing, viewing and storing moving images, it is appropriate to survey the literature concerning the use of moving images in research over the past few decades. A review of the literature shows that the use of video technology for research falls into three areas: observation (including data collection and analysis), a mechanism for giving feedback, and a means for distance learning and consulting via videoconferencing. This article addresses the first two areas — observation and feedback. It begins with a survey of the use of video observation as a tool for research and documentation. A section on feedback, divided into three sections: performance, interaction and situational assessment follows. A separate section is devoted to the use of video for Program Evaluation. The article concludes with a discussion of epistemological methodological issues and the ethics involved in such a technologically advanced medium.

scholarly journals Exploiting the emergent nature of mixed methods designs: insights from a mixed methods impact evaluation in Malawi

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuela De Allegri ◽  
Stephan Brenner ◽  
Christabel Kambala ◽  
Jacob Mazalale ◽  
Adamson S Muula ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Impact Evaluation ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Maternal And Newborn Health ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Analytical Approaches

Abstract The application of mixed methods in Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) has expanded remarkably. Nevertheless, a recent review has highlighted how many mixed methods studies do not conceptualize the quantitative and the qualitative component as part of a single research effort, failing to make use of integrated approaches to data collection and analysis. More specifically, current mixed methods studies rarely rely on emergent designs as a specific feature of this methodological approach. In our work, we postulate that explicitly acknowledging the emergent nature of mixed methods research by building on a continuous exchange between quantitative and qualitative strains of data collection and analysis leads to a richer and more informative application in the field of HPSR. We illustrate our point by reflecting on our own experience conducting the mixed methods impact evaluation of a complex health system intervention in Malawi, the Results Based Financing for Maternal and Newborn Health Initiative. We describe how in the light of a contradiction between the initial set of quantitative and qualitative findings, we modified our design multiple times to include additional sources of quantitative and qualitative data and analytical approaches. To find an answer to the initial riddle, we made use of household survey data, routine health facility data, and multiple rounds of interviews with both healthcare workers and service users. We highlight what contextual factors made it possible for us to maintain the high level of methodological flexibility that ultimately allowed us to solve the riddle. This process of constant reiteration between quantitative and qualitative data allowed us to provide policymakers with a more credible and comprehensive picture of what dynamics the intervention had triggered and with what effects, in a way that we would have never been able to do had we kept faithful to our original mixed methods design.

Something is happening: encountering silence in disability research

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chelsea Jones ◽  
Fiona Cheuk
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Valid Data ◽  
Collection Practices ◽  
Disability Research

PurposeOften, researchers view silence as antagonistic to equity-aimed projects. Because verbal, written, and textually agentive communications are presumed to be the most valid qualitative-research data, moments of silence are under-analyzed. Yet, we argue that silence holds meaning as data and that it is a valid, rich form of communication.Design/methodology/approachThrough this reflective analysis of silence, we invite readers to reconceptualize silence in research from a critical disability-research perspective with emphasis on crip willfulness. We introduce silence as an interpretive, agentive and relational gesture.FindingsWe attend to silence as necessary in all research because it helps researchers excavate able-bodied expectations about communication in qualitative-data-collection practices.Originality/valueWe demonstrate that silences in research can be an interpretive, relational, and agentive gesture that can teach us about taken-for-granted assumptions about research practices. Revisiting our research encounters with this framing of silence informed by critical disability studies allows us to question how traditional social science research methods value some modalities of expression over others. Rather than viewing silence in research as moments when nothing happens, we show that silence indicates something happening and is valid data.

scholarly journals Validation of the Design for Mass Adaptation Method – A Case for Higher Medical Treatment Quality

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-100
Author(s):  
Selin Üreten ◽  
Johanna Spallek ◽  
Ece Üreten ◽  
Dieter Krause
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Treatment Quality ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
High Treatment ◽  
Adaptation Method ◽  
Qualitative Data Collection

This contribution demonstrates the application of the new Design Method Validation System ( DMVS) for the validation of engineering design methods in product development. The application example is a case from the medical branch. The product design method Design for Mass Adaptation ( DfMAd) with individualization and modification steps as triggers is compared to an adapted design method with product individualization but without modification triggers. This experimental study was conducted in accordance with the DMVS procedure. Measured outcomes refer to the usefulness, applicability and acceptance of the design method DfMAd. Two groups of student participants were compared to each other through research tools based on quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis. Findings show that the considered DfMAd phase successfully leads to the desired benefit for the consideration of variant-oriented alternatives, thus confirming the test hypothesis. In the example of a product, a crutch, a high treatment quality can be achieved by specific adaptability of the product. In addition, it is shown that DMVS is suitable for the development of experiments and that the data collection means are differently suited for the validation of the three criteria.

scholarly journals A Citizen’s Claim: Science With and for Society

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (8-9) ◽  
pp. 943-947 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Soler ◽  
Aitor Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Science Inquiry ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies

Social science research has been attacked by neoliberal thinkers who allege that such research lacks economic objectives. In the face of neoliberal and positivist criteria for evaluating the social impact of social science inquiry, social science researchers are developing qualitative evaluation methodologies through which we can have direct contact with citizens. These qualitative methodologies declare our social responsibility as social researchers in addressing relevant problems, especially those affecting the most vulnerable people. From these qualitative methodologies, the most vulnerable groups are included in the assessment of the social impacts of social research. Some examples of people who have participated in this qualitative evaluation include women, youth, immigrants, and Roma organizations. Participants perceived social science researchers as being far from their social reality, but in this research, they began to overcome their skepticism that social science research can help to solve those problems affecting their everyday lives.

The importance of the Antarctic in atmospheric sciences

1977 ◽  
Vol 279 (963) ◽  
pp. 275-285 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
International Collaboration ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Atmospheric Science ◽  
Atmospheric Sciences ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Prime Objective ◽  
The Antarctic ◽  
New Instruments

A prime objective of atmospheric science research in Antarctica is to use the special conditions found there to throw new light on global problems and, in particular, to test theories of the dynamics of the environment and its reactions to solar phenomena. This involves much international collaboration in planning, data collection and analysis, which is briefly described. The British Antarctic Survey theatre of operations is geographically and magnetically unique and therefore offers exceptionally favourable conditions for such tests. The development of new instruments, in particular those carried by satellite, has made research possible in uninhabited regions and enabled problems to be studied which were previously impracticable. The objects of this paper are to draw attention to the needs and possibilities, and to show some of the ways in which the specific investigations discussed by other contributors interact.

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