I recently made a very difficult decision to revise my dissertation proposal. The stress over this process is partially responsible for my lack of posts during the last couple of weeks. I even received a 'where have you been?' email from GoAnimate, which suggests that QNG has been dormant for too long. The good news (?!) is that the monsters will remain with me and will still represent (some of) the same challenges. Rather than jumping right into an intervention study, I am going to do some exploratory statistical (yes, statistical!) analysis while keeping a qualitative, probably interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) piece to this research. While it was not my primary motivator for making this change (although perhaps it should have been), the research design I am working on now should provide excellent ground work for the intervention study, which I still plan to implement at a later date. And I am actually excited about working with a fairly complex but interesting statistical modeling technique.
Right now I am doing a lot of reading with a focus on how to set up the survey information. I truly dislike the analysis of ordinal variables as continuous so looking at some alternative ways to set up the information. For good or for bad, this means that in addition to discussing things like reflexivity on this blog, I will be discussing things like autocorrelation of errors. QNG may get a friend, or nemesis....
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AuthorI am Sheryl L. Chatfield, Ph.D, C.T.R.S. I am a member of the faculty in the College of Public Health at Kent State University. I also Co-coordinate the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research and I am a member of the Design Innovation Team at Kent State. Archives
February 2024
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