Qualitative Assessment Methods
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Preparing for interviews
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A checklist to make sure you’re entirely prepared for carrying out your interviews with participants. Covers the questions as well as the practical dimensions.
Perfecting your interview
questions
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10 points on how to best set out your interview questions so they address your research objectives without being too leading or overworking the participant.
Template opening script
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Using a script like this helps with consistency and rigour in your research, as well as ensuring everyone receives the same information.
Conducting Interviews
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A good bedside manner is important in any participant research. This guide advises on how best to conduct yourself during the interview process.
Focus groups / workshops
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With some comparison to interviews, this explores the pros and cons of focus group or group workshop methods.
Project observation methods
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This method of fieldwork allows you to observe live, current projects to get a sense of the participants and their experiences. Here we advise how to go about it.
Short, end-user beneficiary interviews
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In some situations it will be possible to attend events and gather short interviews and testimonials, so we explore how this can be achieved here.
Online ethnography
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We have explored how to gather social media data. This qualitative approach explores how to identify unfolding discourses and narratives that emerge online.
Analysis during and throughout your projects
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Don’t assume analysis is simply ‘the final stage’. Here we explore how to analyse iteratively during your research fieldwork.
Analysing final materials
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Having collected materials, this outlines the principles of thematic coding, identifying patterns that can be written up in your report.