Topic:
Methods: surveys, questionnaires,
Practice: validity, reliability, trustworthiness
Read for class
- A-Z entry on survey research in the Sage Qualitative and interviewing for surveys advantages disadvantages Sage Communication
- A-Z entry on validity construct in the Sage Communication and validity in Sage Qualitative
- A-Z entry on reliability of measurement in the Sage Communication and reliability in Sage Qualitative
- A-Z entry on trustworthiness in Sage Qualitative and triangulation in Sage Communication
- Erica Hall’s Stance on Surveys (this is a medium article so it’s quick. There is also an embedded link at the top where you need to read it too.)
- Rife, Martine Courant. (2013). Invention, copyright, and digital writing. Carbondale, Il: Southern Illinois University Press. (this is a number of parts of the book. Read the methodology and the part about surveys as rhetorical only.
Do for class:
- Perform an interview, focus group, or oral history based on our readings and discussion from last week. You need to begin that this process with a curiosity or questions of some kind. You will need to produce the questions in a structured, semi-structured, or open approach and then conduct the thing. Reflect on how well the interview went in relation to your curiosity or question. Upload your observation and related noted as a single file to the google folder for this week.
- Post an article in our shared google document from your field that uses the survey method and aligns with who you are as a scholar/teacher/practitioner.
In class:
- discussion of your field exercise
- discussion of surveys and questionnaires
- discussion of terms related to research
- check in on your research questions and create project