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Yinka Olusoga; Catherine Bannister; Julia Bishop; Valerio Signorelli – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2022
This case study examines the complexities of rapid-response data collection via the Play Observatory project's online qualitative survey of children, families, and child-oriented organizations. This research took place during a global pandemic and combined data collection with cataloguing and preserving materials for future research. Placing…
Descriptors: Play, Child Behavior, National Surveys, National Organizations
Kanstoroom, Marci, Ed.; Osberg, Eric C., Ed. – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2008
America brims with education data and these days it seems everyone in education claims to be guided by data. In this book, leaders and scholars map the landscape of data providers and users and explores why what is supplied by the former but frequently fails to meet the needs of the latter. It documents the barriers to collecting good information,…
Descriptors: Education, Data, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Feldman, Martha S.; Bell, Jeannine; Berger, Michele Tracy – 2003
This book offers useful, prescriptive advice on how to enter different field settings for interviewing and observation. The chapters of part 1, "Stages of Access," are: (1) "Finding Informants"; (2) "Human Subjects and Permission To Contact Informants"; (3) "Making Initial Contact"; (4) "Developing a Rapport"; and (5) "Exiting: Ending the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Data Collection, Educational Research, Qualitative Research