Masters in Public Administration - MPA 505 Qualitiative Research Methods
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Week 7
READINGS
Trochim, Chapter 4
Marshall and Rossman, Chapter 4 (handout)
PROJECT: Work on specific data collection instruments such as questionnaires, interview guides and open ended conversations if appropriate to your data collection proposal.
EXERCISE- G'Day
In this exercise you will be visiting Murdoch University in Perth Australia. In particular you will be visiting their law school. This data base contains open and closed ended questions regarding various aspects of the law training. We are going to look at Question 27, which asks student's to respond the the following statement
": MY EXPERIENCE OF GROUP WORK HAS BEEN THAT ALL GROUP MEMBERS CONTRIBUTE
EQUALLY TO THE PROJECT
This is the kind of issue that might arise in qualitative research. The researcher would also have a log of events, demographic, etc. but the core objective here is begin to understand how to manage the data being collected. Click here for a Work document of this chart. Complete the chart below:
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| 1. Before visiting Murdoch U. respond to the statement regarding your experience with group work. | |
| 2. Read the student's responses and write a brief statement regarding the "gist" of their comments regarding group work. | |
| Categorize all the statements in 5 to 6 topic areas and develop a chart that summarizes responses by category. | |
| Category Title | Respondents that fall into category. Numbers are noted next to answers. |
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Chart Summarize what categorization reveals about issue of group work.
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Write a close ended question based on your analysis of the open-ended responses reviewed above.
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