Objectives: After completing this class, you will be able to:

• Use a variety of data collection technques such as Q-sorting, free listing, and life history narratives, to improve the quality and range of data you can collect
• Employ a combination of data collection techniques in one research study to enhance the reliability and validity of your research
• Identify and use contrasting techniques of data collection to improve your ability to assess convergent and divergent validity (triangulation, or multiple measurement of key constructs)

Required Reading

McKim, Courtney A. (2017) The value of mixed methods research: A mixed methods study. Journal of Mixed Methods Research 11(2):202-222. DOI: 10.1177/1558689815607096

Research Methods Review Articles

Each of you will report on ONE of the articles listed below. You will post the research methods review to the Various Techniques Discussion Board. Your oral presentation of the key points should take no more than 4 minutes. After 5 presentations are completed, we will have a 10-15-minute Q&A period. I will ask you to select your article by March 24 and post it to the "Various Techniques" discussion board on Canvas. Two people CANNOT read the same article. The first person to select an article gets to review. Anyone else who wanted that article must find a different one. Please remember that we are interested in how to use the technique and why it's useful, not a topic like substance abuse or social capital. Focus on what you learned about the method of data collection, NOT the topic of the study. Complete all required components in the submission, making sure that you label each component. The instructions are linked here: Research Report Reviews.

Please pick ONE article from the list of Week 12 Articles. Check to make sure no one else has already claimed that article on the Week 12 discussion board in Canvas. See the instructions on that discussion baord for details about the posting for this class meeting. . Use this title of your reply to alert everyone that you have claimed the article: "YourLastName_Selection_Week_12and follow the instructions about filing your choice on the Discussion Board

Additional Resources

Good but Somewhat Dated

Coe, C., Gibson, A., Spencer, N. & Stuttaford, M. (2008). Sure start: Voices of the "hard to reach." Child: Care, Health & Development 34(4), 447-453.

Dressler, W.W., Borges, C.D., Balieiro, M.C. & dos Santos, J.E. (2005). Measuring cultural consonance: Examples with special reference to measurement theory in anthropology. Field Methods 17(4), 331-355.

Fiese, B.H., Winter, M.A., Wamboldt, F.S., Anbar, R.D. & Wamboldt, M.Z. (2010). Do family mealtime interactions mediate the association between asthma symptoms and separation anxiety? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 51(2), 144-151.

Kennedy, D.P. (2005). Scale adaptation and ethnography. Field Methods 17(4), 412-431.

Roininen, K., Arvola, A. & Lahteenmaki, L. (2006). Exploring consumers' perceptions of local food with two different qualitative techniques: laddering and word association. Food Quality & Preference 17(1/2), 20-30.

Ross, N.J., Renold, E., Holland, S. & Hillman, A. (2009). Moving stories: Using mobile methods to explore the everyday lives of young people in public care. Qualitative Research 9(5), 605-623.

Sperschneider, W. & Bagger, K. (2003) Ethnographic fieldwork under industrial constraints: toward deisgn-in-context. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 15(1), 41-50.

Tang, R. & Gavin, M.C. (2010). Traditional ecological knowledge informing resource management: Saxoul conservation in Inner Mongolia, China. Society & Natural Resources 23(3), 193-206.

Whaley, A.L. & Longoria, R.A. (2009). Preparing card sort data for multidimensional scaling analysis in social psychological research: A methodological approach. Journal of Social Psychology 149(1), 105-115.

Wilkinson, S. (2000). Women with breast cancer talking causes: comparing content, biographical and discursive analysis. Feminism & Psychology 10(4), 431-460.