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Eva Mikuska – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
The aim of this case study is to highlight the importance of piloting or pre-testing the research design (in this case, semi-structured interviews and narratives). Most textbooks offer minimal guidance about pre-testing the research design, and published reports rarely report whether the research was piloted and, if so, what were the results.…
Descriptors: Semi Structured Interviews, Research Methodology, Personal Narratives, Pilot Projects
Myra C. Y. Lee – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2018
The research design of a study involves continual refinement through experiential processes. This case study demonstrates the importance to novice researchers of conducting a pilot study to test the feasibility of the study's research design and practice data collection (in this instance, interviewing skills). The case study is based on an…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Doctoral Students, Student Attitudes, Foreign Students
Edward Hind – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
Citizen science is a relatively young research field. Having 'discovered' it in a conference workshop, I thought it might be the answer to solving a problem I had encountered during my PhD studies -- how to scale-up efforts to record valuable experiential knowledge. I planned to train citizen scientists to conduct qualitative semi-structured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Citizen Participation, Scientific Research
Jeff Bloggs – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
Although I am an economic geographer trained in the United States, most of my research has been conducted in Germany or Canada. Thus, I developed my disciplinary schema in a context different from the one where I now use it. This US-focused training taught me that before one examines the local dynamics of a particular industry, labor market, or…
Descriptors: Data Use, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Trend Analysis