Qualitative Data Collection

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Qualitative Data Collection

• Nature of Data

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Ways to Collect Data

• Interviews open ended
• Consider the Context
• Face to Face
• Structured uniform questions for all
• Unstructured more control by participants

• Focus Groups group think, exciting
• Recorder, questioner
• Narratives stories, written, self, others
• Chat Rooms
• Observations watcher, field notes

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Trustworthiness

• Confirmability - Leave Audit Trail
• Credibility verify with participants
• Dependability validity
• Transferability fittingness or Fit to other
  similar contexts