At the end of this course, you will submit a Qualitative Research Plan incorporating the skills and techniques you have learned. In order to help you prepare for this research plan, you will first complete a data collection Mini-Project that you will submit in Week 9.
This week, you will begin your Mini-Project by developing an appropriate data collection tool. You will test your data collection tool and provide interview questions and field notes.
To prepare for this Application:
• Based on the research questions for the qualitative research plan for this course, develop an appropriate data collection tool and find 3-5 participants in class, if possible, or from the list of students in other current advanced qualitative research courses, who you can interview in order to test the tool. The advanced qualitative research course student list was posted in the announcements during week 2 and encompasses students from across the University currently taking the course
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• Before you test it, predict what patterns and themes you expect to emerge from the collected data. On what do you base your predictions?
The assignment:
• Provide the interview questions and protocol.
• Provide field notes for each interview.
• In 3–pages:
o Summarize the responses to the questions.
o Analyze the responses. Is this the information you were hoping to generate from the questions? If you are not getting the data you want, what needs to change?
o Evaluate the overall effectiveness of the interview questions and protocol you developed. Where can the questions or protocol be improved?