USAID EVALUATION PUBLICATIONS
http://www.usaid.gov/policy/evalweb/evaluation_resources.html
They
have
a number of text and pdf files, about qualitative methods,
including Conducting Key Informant Interviews, Using
Direct Observation Techniques, Conducting Focus Group
Interviews. These files are in their Performance
Monitoring and Evaluation TIPS section.
Usability methods http://www.usability.gov/methods/
lists
short
overviews of many methods including focus groups, contextual
interviews, individual interviews, other methods
Qualitative Research in Information
Systems http://www.qual.auckland.ac.nz/
Kind
of
a brief lit review and overview. Includes some bibliographic
references of print journals and books.
Introduction to Social Work Research
http://pweb.sophia.ac.jp/oka/papers.htm
really an introduction to qualitative methods. What
is qualitative research, how to do and analyze.
The qualitative report http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/index.html
edited
on
line journal about qualitative research. See a section,
Practicing Qualitative Research http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/practice.html
also
see
syllabi and other links.
Qualitative research methods in health technology assessment: a
review of the literature http://www.hta.ac.uk/execsumm/summ216.htm
This is the summary. Can download the entire
report.
Qualitative Methods Workbook
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/qualmeth.html
by George Boeree. Broad look at qualitative
methods including phenomenology, structural analysis,
observation and interviewing.
Qualitative research http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~mid/edr725/class/
class
notes,
especially see modules, then the electronic text book.
Evaluation of HIV Prevention Programs Using Qualitative
Methods http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/publications/hiv_handbook/
brief description of methods and some issues in focus
groups, observations, interviews.
Ethnography - observation in the field
A SYNTHESIS OF ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH
http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~genzuk/Ethnographic_Research.html
This
is an overview.
An ethnography primer http://www.aiga.org/ethnography-primer/
Interviewing
Action research International http://www.aral.com.au/
has
many other useful information, including Convergent Interviewing http://www.aral.com.au/areol/areol-session08.html
a
Resource
paper in Action Research, a technique for qualitative data
collection. How to do interviewing. By Bob Dick.
Oral History Techniques: How to Organize and Conduct Oral
History Interviews http://www.indiana.edu/~cshm/techniques.html
overview of the process. by Barbara Truesdell
An Oral History Primer http://library.ucsc.edu/reg-hist/oral-history-primer
overview
Oral History: Techniques and Procedures http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/oral/ohg.html
by
Stephen
E. Everett. Designed for military interviews, but
parts apply to anyone doing interviews. See Part II:
The Spoken Word in Peacetime, that has information, for
example, on contacting interviewee, conducting background
research, conducting the interview.
Focus groups
Social Research Updates
http://sru.soc.surrey.ac.uk/SRU19.html
review of focus groups, issues, potentials, limitations.
A Manual for the Use of Focus Groups http://libdoc.who.int/publications/1993/0963552228.pdf
manual on how to do focus groups. From 1993.
Focus group tips http://www.gdiworld.com/tips.htm
brief
introductions
to some focus group topics.
Qualitative
data analysis
Analyzing Verbal Data, principal, problems and
methods http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/education/jlemke/papers/handbook.htm
an
overview
Analyzing Qualitative Data http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1997/nsf97153/start.htm
Chapter 4 in User-Friendly Handbook for Mixed Method
Evaluations. Another overview, but touches on most of the steps.
Online QDA http://onlineqda.hud.ac.uk/
"This
site
is a set of training support materials which address common
problems (both early and advanced) of using Qualitative Data
Analysis (QDA) methods and selected Computer Assisted
Qualitative Data AnalysiS (CAQDAS) packages." Has good
overviews of issues, methods, etc.
"Help, I'm Getting Buried in Field Notes!" A Manual for
Qualitative Data Management and Analysis http://www.mdrc.org/publications/332/abstract.html
not
exactly
analysis but management and analysis.
Qualitative Data Analysis for Health Services Research:
Developing Taxonomy, Themes, and Theory. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1955280/
Elizabeth H Bradley, Leslie A Curry, and Kelly J
Devers. Health Serv Res. 2007 August; 42(4):
1758–1772. Academic paper, but fairly detailed guide
to the process of qualitative data analysis.
Content
Analysis
Overview
of content analysis http://pareonline.net/getvn.asp?v=7&n=17 An
article in Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation
http://pareonline.net/Home.htm
other stuff
Latent Semantic Analysis http://lsa.colorado.edu/
This
method
"captures the essential relationships between text documents and
word meaning, or semantics, the knowledge base which must be
accessed to evaluate the quality of content." This site
has some theory, research and application of this method.
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