11 May DOES THE RESEARCHER MAKE ANY MENTION OF ISSUES OF VALIDITY AND/OR RELIABILITY?
Survey
44) Is the research topic worded appropriately for survey research?
45) Did the researcher specifically state which type of survey method was used?
46) Do the survey questions adequately address the topic?
47) Are the survey questions constructed correctly?
48) Did the researcher provide any information about the response rate? Did the researcher provide any information about follow-up mailings or other ways of increasing response rate? What are the implications of the response rate?
49) Did the researcher explain how he or she guaranteed anonymity or confidentiality?
50) Overall, is the survey methodology effective and appropriate?
8. Field Research
51) Does the research describe the selected site? Does the research provide some explanation as to how that site was chosen?
52) Did the researchers explain how they addressed gatekeepers?
53) Did the researcher address how he developed field relations? If conflict arose, did the researcher make any comment about how personal or research problems in the field were addressed?
54) Did the researcher adequately protect the identity of the respondents? Did the researcher address other ethical considerations?
55) Did the researcher describe, at least in passing, his method of note taking? Does the method seem adequate?
56) In the analysis, does the researcher present general patterns of behavior and support those patterns with data such as quoted comments? Does the researcher use quotes selectively?
57) Does the researcher make any mention of issues of validity and/or reliability?
58) Overall, is the research adequate?
9. Unobtrusive Measures
59) What is the researcher’s research purpose or hypothesis? Is content analysis an appropriate method of observation?
60) What are the researcher’s units of analysis? What are the units of observation (if they are different than the units of analysis)?
61) Is the researcher studying a population or a sample of these units? If the researcher is studying a sample, is it a probability sample? If so, was it correctly drawn? If the researcher is not studying a population or a probability sample, is he or she appropriately cautious about the nature of any conclusions?
62) Does the researcher identify the characteristics and level of content being analyzed? Does the researcher explain how material is coded, especially for issues of latent content?
63) Did the researcher do any type of pretest with other coders to test for reliability? Where they any tests for validity?
64) Are the conclusions consistent with the units of analysis?
65) Are the results clearly presented and the conclusions appropriate?
66) Generally, is the method of observation done appropriately?
10. Evaluation Research
67) What is the purpose of the evaluation presented?
68) Is the nature of the program described in detail?
69) Are the goals presented and can the goals that the author presents be evaluated?
70) What type of observation method is used? Is it appropriate, given the real-life restrictions of evaluation research?
71) Is a control group used? If so, how has the researcher tried to show that it is equivalent to the experimental group? If not, does the researcher adequately explain its omission?
72) How are people selected for program participation? Does this affect the interpretation of findings, and, if so, does the researcher discuss this?
73) Are the results clearly explained?
74) How does the article address the other areas of evaluation discussed in earlier chapters?
Your evaluation should include one of the following sections (3 pts):
11. Qualitative Analysis
75) Is the results section a cohesive essay?
76) Does the researcher connect the results to any general research questions or goals?
77) Is the perspective of the results presentation appropriate? Does it match the research technique?
78) Has the writer presented enough examples to support the conclusions? Do the examples make the readers ‘believe’ the researcher’s points?
79) Do you have reason to believe that the presence of the researcher influenced the actions or statements of other group members? If this is possible, has the researcher addressed it in the research?
80) Especially in field research (although this may be an issue to a lesser degree in other forms of qualitative data gathering), does the researcher discuss how he or she interacted with subjects in the field, what problems arose, and how the researcher addressed them?
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