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Part 1: Qualitative Research & Assessment - Designing and Implementing Qualitative Research

Part 1: Qualitative Research & Assessment - Designing and Implementing Qualitative Research. Dora Elias McAllister, Ph.D. Qualitative Researcher & Consultant. What’s the Difference?. Misunderstandings about Qualitative Research.

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Part 1: Qualitative Research & Assessment - Designing and Implementing Qualitative Research

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  1. Part 1: Qualitative Research & Assessment - Designing and Implementing Qualitative Research Dora Elias McAllister, Ph.D. Qualitative Researcher & Consultant Dora Elias McAllister, Ph.D. for CTN

  2. What’s the Difference? Dora Elias McAllister, Ph.D. for CTN

  3. Misunderstandings about Qualitative Research • Qualitative data are easy to collect and analyze; anyone can do it! • Qualitative methods are too labor intensive and cumbersome to be practical • Only assessment findings that are generalizable can inform policy and practice Source: Harper, S. R., & Kuh, G. D. (2007) Myths and misconceptions about using qualitative methods in assessment. New Directions For Institutional Research, 136, 5-14. Dora Elias McAllister, Ph.D. for CTN

  4. Qualitative Research: What Is It? • Definition “an umbrella term covering an array of interpretive techniques which seek to describe, decode, translate, and otherwise come to terms with the meaning, not the frequency, of certain more or less naturally occurring phenomena in the social world” (Merriam, 2009, p. 13) • Key Characteristics • Focus is on process, understanding, and meaning • Researcher as primary instrument of data collection and analysis • An inductive process • Product is richly descriptive Dora Elias McAllister, Ph.D. for CTN

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  6. Designing Your Study • Selecting a Topic • Research Problem • Theoretical/Conceptual Framework • Literature Review • Sample Selection Dora Elias McAllister, Ph.D. for CTN

  7. Collecting Qualitative Data • Interviews • Individual • Focus Groups • Observations • Physical setting • Participants • Activities & interactions • Conversations • Subtle factors • Your own behavior • Documents & Artifacts • Public records • Personal documents • Popular culture • Popular media • Visual documents Dora Elias McAllister, Ph.D. for CTN

  8. Analyzing Qualitative Data Dora Elias McAllister, Ph.D. for CTN

  9. Part 2: Qualitative Research & Assessment –Writing Up Qualitative Research May 16, 2019 Dora Elias McAllister, Ph.D. for CTN

  10. Resources • Handouts & PowerPoint • Free 30 minute consultation • Catch the Next Dora Elias McAllister, Ph.D. for CTN

  11. Part 1: Qualitative Research & Assessment - Designing and Implementing Qualitative Research Dora Elias McAllister, Ph.D. Qualitative Researcher & Consultant (512) 710-9983 dora.em@gmail.com Dora Elias McAllister, Ph.D. for CTN

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