Qualitative Methods – Page 9

Laura Pryor on Using Photovoice to Support a Culturally Responsive Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation, Qualitative Methods / September 9, 2012 September 9, 2012

My name is Laura Pryor, and I am a recent alumna of The American Evaluation Association’s Graduate Education Diversity Initiative (GEDI) program. My experience in the GEDI program largely focused on culturally responsive evaluation. As a result, my current work considers and prioritizes several methods to apply culturally responsive practices. Most recently, I incorporated the …

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Wilder Research Week: Caryn Mohr on Case Studies

Hello, I am Caryn Mohr, a Research Scientist at Wilder Research, a nonprofit human services research and evaluation group in St. Paul, Minnesota. Our work ranges from qualitative to quasi-experimental studies, and often involves multiple research methods. My recent work has afforded the opportunity to see the merits and challenges in conducting case study research. …

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Vanessa Jackson on Using Qualitative Methods for Small Business Development and Sustainability

1 Comment / Business, Leadership, and Performance, Qualitative Methods / July 20, 2012 June 22, 2012

Greetings from Kentucky, the land of national basketball championships. My name is Vanessa Prier Jackson and I a professor of retailing in the School of Human Environmental Sciences in the department of Merchandising Apparel and Textiles at the University of Kentucky. For the last three years I have become very interested in qualitative research in …

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Crystal Hurd on Conducting Theory-based Document Analysis

Leave a Comment / Qualitative Methods / July 18, 2012 July 12, 2012

Hello! I am Crystal Hurd, a K-12 educator and an adjunct professor at East Tennessee State University and Northeast State Community College. Last year, I embarked on an unorthodox dissertation topic: Transformational Leadership in the Life and Works of C.S. Lewis. No one had ever applied leadership theory to Lewis. In response, many replied, the …

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Dana Harley on Tips for Utilizing Photovoice with Children and Adolescents: Navigating the Institutional Review Board

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Qualitative Methods / July 16, 2012 June 22, 2012

I am Dana Harley, an Assistant Professor at Northern Kentucky University. I specialize in child and adolescent mental health and developmental issues, with a focus on participatory action research methods such as, “photovoice.” Photovoice is a cutting edge research method aimed at uncovering issues, concerns, constructs, or real-life experiences of those who have historically been …

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IE Week: Rahel Wasserfall on The Power of the Dissonant Story

Leave a Comment / Internal Evaluation, Qualitative Methods / June 26, 2012 May 25, 2012

My name is Rahel Wasserfall. I am an internal evaluator and do program development for the International Summer School on Religion in the Public Life (ISSRPL). I’m also affiliated with the Women Studies Research Center at Brandeis University and use mostly qualitative methods, including participant observation and in-depth interviews. As an evaluator with nine years …

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Lori Peterson on Conducting Focus Groups with High School Students with Disabilities

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Qualitative Methods, Youth Focused Evaluation / May 1, 2012 May 1, 2012

I am Lori Peterson an Assistant Professor at the University of Northern Colorado. Recently, I worked on a project conducting a series of focus groups with high school students with disabilities. I wanted to share tips and lessons learned from this experience. Hot Tips: Feed them and they will come! High school students love food. …

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June Gothberg on Using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) Software

13 Comments / Community Psychology, Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Qualitative Methods, Social Network Analysis / April 6, 2012 May 4, 2017

Greetings, I am June Gothberg, Lead Curator for aea365 and Research Associate at Western Michigan University. As Lead Curator, I am always looking for ways to expand the knowledge of evaluators through hot tips, cool tricks, lessons learned, and rad resources. While working on my dissertation, I made a great find and thought I would …

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Joelle Cook on the Bellwether Interview Methodology

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Policy Change, Qualitative Methods / January 6, 2012 January 2, 2012

I am Joelle Cook with Organizational Research Services (ORS) in Seattle, Washington. ORS designs, implements and coaches clients in outcome-based planning and evaluation. We specialize in advocacy and policy evaluation and our advocacy-related projects often include the investigation of changes in political will. Through a demonstration session at the 2011 AEA conference, Steve Mumford and …

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Ricardo Gomez on Using Q Methodology for Evaluation

12 Comments / Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design / January 5, 2012 January 2, 2012

Greetings. My name is Ricardo Gomez and I currently work as a Research and Evaluation Associate for the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. I am also a doctoral candidate in International Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Center for International Education, and alumnus of the AEA-Duquesne University Graduate Diversity Internship Program. The opinions …

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