12.1 - 12.2
I am totally detached from the behavior of the participants who are being studied.
Complete Observer
This type of interview focuses on past and present lived experiences.
Life-history interviews
This is the first thing to do with audiotapes, video, documents, artifacts, or researcher notes.
Transcribe them into words.
These checks and balances address whether the data collection strategies and analyses warrant the findings and claims.
This exceptional professor puts the "pro" in provost.
Dr. Hedin
Surprise! I am the researcher in the group and you don't even know it.
Participant Observer
These types of data doesn't allow probing for additional information.
Documents/Artifacts/Visual Material
The overall goal of qualitative data analysis and interpretation.
To discover patterns.
This process begins with the researcher's informed hunches and ideas as data are being collected and interpreted.
Pattern-seeking.
I may be (or not to be) a two-time recipient of DBU's Piper Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award.
Dr. Nelson
This is a technique for bracketing possible perceptions to establish reflexivity.
Memoing
I am the most common qualitative research interview type.
The Semiconstructed interview.
These labels are used to provide a common way of describing text.
Codes
The researcher is continually searching for both supporting and contrary evidence about the meaning of the category.
Constant Comparison
Whenever I'm looking to give someone a hard time eXo marks the spot.
Dr. Killingsworth
Six.
Probing
I am formed from coded data as a more general and abstract idea that represents the meaning of similarly coded information.
Categories
This should be done when using quotes are used in qualitative research.
Protect the identity of the individual.
This former Director of Student Support Services at Mountain View College cares about colleges in "communities."
Dr. Garrett
Observation, Interviews, Document Analysis & Visual Materials
I have a general idea of what needs to be asked, but I don't have a list of prescribed questions with precise wording.
An unstructured interview.
Now that we have computers we can use these to help synthesize data.
Qualitative data analysis software.
This refers to the appropriateness of applying the results to other contexts and settings.
Transferability.
Jesus can change your heart, this PhD student can operate on it.
Dr. Mark Pool