HSS 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Institutional Review Board, The Focus Group, Sample Size Determination
24 Nov 2018
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Participated in sharing group phenomenon the process or action. Several steps: permission from institutional review boards, consent forms, right to withdraw, purpose of the study and methods, protection of confidentiality. Can lead to bad things: known risks, expected benefits, participant and researchers" signature, gatekeeper, build rapport. Definition (creswell, 2018): intentionally samples a group that can best inform the researcher about the problem, 3 considerations, who to select (individuals/sites, type of sampling strategy, sample size. Types of sampling strategies: maximum variation sampling, critical cases, convenience cases not purposeful sampling, snowball or chain sampling. Intent is not to generalize the info. 4 or 5 cases individuals individuals sharing groups. One point in time vs longitudinal design. 4 basic types as outlined by creswell (2018): interviews, observation, documents/artifacts, audiovisual materials. Others we will cover: focus groups. Interviews; records, interviews; direct through interview; ask interviews. One-on-one: in-person, face-to-face via technology, phone. No talking: text messaging, online chat.
