NSG 3301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ethnoscience, External Auditor, Nvivo
28 Mar 2017
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3 challenges to qualitative research: no universal rules for analyzing, lots of work required to organize and then understand the info, reducing the data for reports; must be concise enough to show in journals. Types of sampling: purposeful applied to identify and select info-rich cases related to a phenomenon of interest. Contains criteria, confirming and disconfirming, maximum variation: theoretical selection of participants based on their contribution to the development of the theory. Starts with similar people then looks for dissimilar people to explore what conditions hold true: creswell (cid:0) created a set of data collection approaches for qualitative research that included . Ask a participant to observe and take field notes. A middle person observes and takes field notes. Observations made as an outsider and later as an insider. Observational protocol by taking descriptive notes, sketches and recording everything: reflective notes capture musings and explore meaning. Unstructured conversation with open ended questions that are notes or recorded.
