Guidelines for Reporting and Evaluating Qualitative Research: What are the alternatives?

Reid, Alan; Gough, Stephen

doi:10.1080/135046200110494

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“…That is, quantitative methods seem to emphasize 'confirmation' (and quantification of that confirmation) information [58]. However, the scarcity of work in the area of OS developers' Information Seeking and the diversity of relevant viewpoints (as illustrated in Section II) suggests an immaturity in this field which in turn suggests that confirmation of hypotheses would be premature.…”

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An empirically-based characterization and quantification of information seeking through mailing lists during Open Source developers’ software evolution

Sharif

English

Alí

et al. 2015

Information and Software Technology

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ContextSeveral authors have proposed information seeking as an appropriate perspective for studying software evolution. Empirical evidence in this area suggests that substantial time delays can accrue, due to the unavailability of required information, particularly when this information must travel across geographically distributed sites. ObjectiveAs a first step in addressing the time delays that can occur in information seeking for distributed Open Source (OS) programmers during software evolution, this research characterizes the information seeking of OS developers through their mailing lists. MethodA longitudinal study that analyses 17 years of developer mailing list activity in total, over 6 different OS projects is performed, identifying the prevalent information types sought by developers, from a qualitative, grounded analysis of this data. Quantitative analysis of the number-of-responses and response time-lag is also performed. ResultsThe analysis shows that Open Source developers are particularly implementation centric and team focused in their use of mailing lists, mirroring similar findings that have been reported in the literature. However novel findings include the suggestion that OS developers often require support regarding the technology they use during development, that they refer to documentation fairly frequently and that they seek implementation-oriented specifics based on system design principles that they anticipate in advance. In addition, response analysis suggests a large variability in the response rates for different types of questions, and particularly that participants have difficulty ascertaining information on other developer's activities. ConclusionThe findings provide insights for those interested in supporting the information needs of OS developer communities: They suggest that the tools and techniques developed in support of co-located developers should be largely mirrored for these communities: that they should be implementation centric, and directed at illustrating "how" the system achieves its functional goals and states. Likewise they should be directed at determining the reason for system bugs: a type of question frequently posed by OS developers but less frequently responded to.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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An empirically-based characterization and quantification of information seeking through mailing lists during Open Source developers’ software evolution

Sharif

English

Alí

et al. 2015

Information and Software Technology

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“…choosing the data source that best fitted our research questions, using the method of purposeful sampling, recording the data digitally, making extensive reflective notes during the research process, giving a thick description of the research results, and engaging in member checking and limited peer debriefing (e.g. Reid and Gough 2000;Baarda, De Goede, and Teunissen 2005;Denzin and Lincoln 2005). Furthermore, we took the 'risk' of being confronted with discrepant information by searching for a maximum of variety in our limited sample (including 'extreme cases').…”

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Beyond individual behaviour change: the role of power, knowledge and strategy in tackling climate change

Kenis¹,

Mathijs²

2012

Environmental Education Research

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Individual behaviour change is fast becoming a kind of 'holy grail' to tackle climate change, in environmental policy, the environmental movement and academic literature. This is contested by those who claim that social structures are the main problem and who advocate collective social action. The objective of the research presented in this paper is to better understand why environmentally concerned citizens choose one of these two types of engagement. Our focus is on the role of experiences of and/or convictions about power in shaping this choice. Within the framework of an explorative qualitative study, we engaged in in-depth interviews with 12 young environmentally concerned citizens. On this basis, five main findings are elaborated. Firstly, powerlessness is shown to be a crucial experience, whatever the respondents' engagement. Secondly, 'strategy scepticism' seems to be a more important obstacle for engagement than 'climate scepticism'. Thirdly, many respondents express significant resistance towards being 'conditioned' by awareness-raising campaigns. Fourthly, a 'gap' is observed between respondents' analysis and their strategy proposals. Finally, we underscore another important gap between concrete and abstract levels in respondents' discourses. All these findings disclose paradoxical aspects of the role of power in shaping the concerned citizens' engaged choices.

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“…The underlying assumptions of each proposal could be clarified, thus opening and enlightening the field of possibilities for learning in environmental education and thus for research on learning in environmental education. Very interestingly, the proposals for environmental education guidelines, and the subsequent discussions they generate, are perfectly mirrored by the discussions about research guidelines in environmental education (Robottom & Hart 1993; the numerous papers in Mrazek, 1993; and the papers in Environmental Education Research, 6(1): Hart, 2000;Reid & Gough, 2000;Smith-Sebasto, 2000. ) There is also a need to clarify the links between environmental education and other educational fields such as citizenship education, education for sustainable development, health and risk education, etc., so as to identify transversal learnings.…”

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Researchers and Research in Environmental Education: A critical review essay on Mark Rickinson's report on learners and learning

Sauvé

Berryman

2003

Environmental Education Research

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In reviewing Mark Rickinson's report analysing research focused on 'Learners and learning in environmental education ' from 1993 to 1999, the authors of this article bear in mind three broad questions around which the paper is organized. First, what is the posture adopted by Rickinson while reviewing what he calls the 'evidence base' stemming from selected empirical studies? The first part of this paper tries to identify the main aspects of his referential framework. Answering such a question improves one's reading of the report from the 'inside' but also helps looking at it from the 'outside' and to envision it from different complementary perspectives. This leads to a second question. Could there be another story we could write from the same 'evidence base'? In the second part, we thus give our own account from this review of the 'evidence base', by focusing on what it tells us about 'researchers and research' in environmental education instead of focusing solely on 'learners and learning': which conceptions of learning, of environment, of environmental education, of evaluation and of research in general underlie researchers' work? These observations lead to the third question. What other avenues of research could be identified and explored? This third part raises some issues about theoretical speculative research, philosophical research, interpretative research, critical research, postmodern research and finally issues about actors involved in research.

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Guidelines for Reporting and Evaluating Qualitative Research: What are the alternatives?

Abstract: SUMMARY There is more to guidelines for qualitative research reports than that proposed in Smith-Sebasto (2000

Cited by 37 publications

References 101 publications

An empirically-based characterization and quantification of information seeking through mailing lists during Open Source developers’ software evolution

An empirically-based characterization and quantification of information seeking through mailing lists during Open Source developers’ software evolution

Beyond individual behaviour change: the role of power, knowledge and strategy in tackling climate change

Researchers and Research in Environmental Education: A critical review essay on Mark Rickinson's report on learners and learning

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