Explore different data collection methods and draw comparisons. You also will examine strengths, weaknesses, and the challenges they may present.
To prepare for this Discussion: • Review this week's Learning Resources related to codes and coding. • Consider the similarities and differences in the data collected from your interview and from the transcripts of the Scholars of Change videos. • Consider the other data collection methods you studied (focus groups, reviews of documents and social media; and your own memos and notes). • Review your Major Assignment 1, paying attention to the alignment between your research question and considerations for data collection.
• My research below • Childhood obesity epidemic in the United States has wide-ranging implications, and as more literature further validates this phenomenon, we can observe obesity's real effects on the nation's level of health and labor market outcomes. Economically, obesity drains valuable resources from the nation's healthcare budget, decreases worker productivity through an increased number of missed work days, and forces employers to spend more on their health care plans for overweight employees. These factors prove that obesity forces taxpayers to forgo valuable income and consumption in order to subsidize higher medical costs and treatments for the obese.
Post a response to the following: • From the data you collected and other data collection methods you studied, compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of at least two data collection methods. Include an explanation of your experience using these different data collection methods. Also, include an explanation of what you found difficult or challenging and why. • Explain how you as the researcher can ensure that your choices for data collection align with your research questions. Use your experience from Major Assignment 1 as an example. Be sure to support your main post and response post with reference to the week's Learning Re-sources and other scholarly evidence in APA style.
What Makes a Good Interview? The intent of a qualitative interview is to encourage, elicit, and illuminate the inter-viewee's experience in rich, thick detail. Consider that most interviewees will only have a general idea of your re-search goals and the depth you need for analysis. Therefore, your presentation of the interview questions and en-gagement with the interviewee are the tools that guide the process. As you consider your interview, think about: 1. Asking of questions to ask to encourage stories and examples 2. How to "reframe" questions to reduce ambiguity and bias 3. What you can do to make the interviewee at ease 4. What you can do to build rapport and trust For this Discussion, you will examine the characteristics of a good qualitative interview. To prepare for this Discussion: • Review the chapters of the Rubin and Rubin course text and consider the characteristics of a good qualitative inter-view. • Review the Yob and Brewer interview questions in Appendix A at the end of the article and consider how interview guides are used in research. • and mission efficacy relies on more than confirmed relationships with con-stituency groups that are often local to the institution
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