general guides, multi topic
Quality in Qualitative Evaluation: a framework
for assessing research
evidence http://www.gsr.gov.uk/evaluating_policy/era_papers/qual_eval.asp
The framework provides a useful and
useable guide for assessing the credibility, rigour and relevance of
individual research studies.
USAID EVALUATION PUBLICATIONS http://www.usaid.gov/pubs/usaid_eval/
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/2000/qrsw/qrsw.html
really an introduction to qualitative methods. What is
qualitative
research, how to do and analyze.
Qualitative Research Resources http://qualitativeresearch.ratcliffs.net/
created by Don Ratcliff, Ph.D. Chapters on role of
researcher,
sampling, data collection, data analysis. Also links to other
qual
resources.
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/hiv_booklet9/index.htm
brief description of methods and some issues in focus groups,
observations, interviews.
Forum: Qualitative social research http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/archive
thematic issue about qualitative methods. Vol 7 number 2.
Ethnography - observation in the field
How to Do Ethnographic Research: A Simplified
Guide http://www.sas.upenn.edu/anthro/anthro/cpiamethods
like it says, a basic guide to doing ethnographic research.
A SYNTHESIS OF ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~genzuk/Ethnographic_Research.html
This is an overview.
Interviewing
Action research International http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arhome.html
has many other useful information, including Convergent
Interviewing http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arp/iview.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/ohprimer.html
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
Market Navigation, Inc. http://www.mnav.com/qualitative_research.htm
Articles about 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://www.unu.edu/unupress/food2/UIN03E/UIN03E00.HTM
manual on how to do focus groups.
Gathering Evidence - A Guide for Using Focus groups http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=12635
Brief guide. Especially useful is the "four steps to effective
focus
groups" outlining planning, recruitment, and moderation. The
analysis
section and other sections are very short.
Action research page on structured focus groups http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arp/focus.html
brief description
Using focus groups for evaluation http://ag.arizona.edu/fcs/cyfernet/cyfar/focus.htm
an overview.
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.
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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