Week 5: June 10, 2025 - Methodologies, methods, and practices

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: