What is the next step after identifying the sample size for online survey?

Hi all,

I am a student working towards gaining my integrated Master's degree (I have not conducted research prior to now). I am a novice to research so bear with me if my terminology isn't 100% accurate. I am conducting qualitative research to explore the experiences and perceptions of diagnostic radiography students in the communication of radiation risk. My question is: Is it correct to use interpretative phenomenology and thematic analysis for my methodology/approach/data analysis? I am conducting semi-structured qualitative interviews with 12 participants, so I hope this will be enough to reach data saturation. A follow-up question I have is whether it would be appropriate for me to use researcher reflexivity in this process as I am a diagnostic radiography student with my own preconceived opinions and experience on the phenomenon under study. Any help or direction for further readings would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Dear fellow researchers

I am looking for an experienced qualitative researcher so that we discuss on meta inferences and interpret study findings particularly in Social Sciences !

Dear community,

I am looking for a short measure of reading ability in the context of an online experiment.

I decided to implement a sentence verification task and I was wondering if there are any item collections available open-source (in English).

Any tips would be appreciated, thank you so much!

-Aki

Hello researchers, l would value all thoughts on the methodology of Interpretive Description, with specific reference to ontology and epistemology guiding a qualitative research study. I would also value thoughts on critical pragmatism and reflective practice in capturing the voices of aged care personal workers, who are critically important but are rarely invited to the table. Thanks

Is it necessary in thematic analysis (Braun and Clarke, 2006) in qualitative research to produce frequency tables of the codes?

Thanks

Good morning Amazing Researchers,

Do you have a suggestion on which analysis to run, to recognize if patterns of Likert Scale answers differ based on demographics?

For example, do the answers supplied on a Likert Scale differ between the age of respondent.

Thank you very much for your help.

Jason

I have a question concerning how to classify this research approach. Let me give you the context:

A couple of colleagues and I found that a particular topic was showing itself to be particular tricky to teach in a classroom environment, thus we spent last year collecting literature on the topic and end up developing a theoretical framework for how to address the issue. We now plan to test our framework by implementing it in an undergrad classroom course that one of us is teaching.

Now here is the thing, we come from a social science background, and we intend to initially approach this effort qualitatively (through observation and semi structured interviews with participants). Thus, my initial reaction would be, from a methodological standpoint, to maybe call this a case study (see Yin, Merriam, Stake, etc.). However, considering that the person implementing the framework (and teaching the course) is also one of the researchers who developed it, can this still be called a case study? Or should it be considered something else? I've heard people suggest Action Research, Participatory Research, or event "a participant observer Case Study" but I'm not quite sure if this is quite it as well.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

Obs.: we are well aware of potential bias, and depending on the results of this first phase we then might, later on, run this again, this time as a more controlled experiment, comparing the framework version classroom outcomes’, against the ones from a "non-framework" one.

I am a master student studying software engineering and currently looking for a master thesis topic in the field of software engineering, or web design and specilist frond_end designer . I'm not sure what kind of research I can do in this area and I need your help.

Thank you so much

Dear All

I am facing some issues in analyzing i.e. coding the interview data. I did a pilot of five interviews and did the initial coding. I then conducted another 4 interviews and revisit the initial coding. After the subsequent 5 interviews I revisit the first code again. I tried to derived the second codes from these 12 interviews but did not proceed to the thematic code yet as it has not reach the saturation points. I hope I am on the right track.

My question is, is this the right way for the grounded theory method. I understand for the thematic I have to finish all the intended interviews and do the coding. I read Glaser and Strauss, Charmaz and Saldana but still can not clearly find the definitive steps after each interviews analysis/coding. All opinions are much appreciated.