Jacquie,
I doubt whether this forum is the right one to pose your question, since
you are looking more for information on doing qualitative evaluation
research than for the use programs for qualitative analysis. Anyway, here
are some suggestions:
Egon G. Guba & Yvonna S. Lincoln, Effective evaluation. Improving the
usefulness of evaluation results through responsive and naturalistic
approaches, Josseey-Bass, San Francisco/London 1988.
(a classic: thorough, epistemologically founded, a little verbiose and
over-serious and polemic)
Michael Quinn Patton, Qualitative evaluation and research methods (2nd
ed.), Sage, Newbury Park/London/New Delhi 1990.
(also a classic: humourous, less heavy, more practical and very good on
qualitative, purposeful sampling)
There is also a booklet of him in the 7 volume Sage Evaluation Kit.
There is, of course, much more, but I have to look at home for it. I'll
come back to it. I hope it will help you. Greetings, Emiel Droogleever
Fortuijn.
At 12:45 14-3-01 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm about to teach an evaluation course in public health. When I taught the
>course before we looked exclusively at quantitative research and used
threats to
>internal validity as the main basis of determining 'success' of a program.
This
>time I would like to include evaluation of qualitative research but I'm
not sure
>just how to go about it or maybe even if I'm asking the right questions. Is
>'success' in qualitative research primarily about theory generation? Is it
>about two or more researchers looking at the same transcripts and pulling out
>the same themes? Am I really trying to get at apples and oranges here,
>quantitative evaluation measuring program success in terms (for public
health)
>of behaviour change, qualitative research looking at data-gathering to
enhance
>program design and/or implementation but not program outcomes?
>
>I may be just getting to a place of thinking about this that many of you have
>been for awhile now so I would appreciate your thoughts on this or ways to
>decipher my, as yet, fuzzy thinking.
>
>Books that I've examined so far do not explicitly address evaluation of
>qualitative research (some have discussed using qualitative methods to
enhance
>quantitative methods of assessment) so any resources would also be
appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Jacquie Fraser, PhD
>Department of Health Science
>Armstrong Atlantic State University
>Savannah, Georgia USA
>
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