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The Quipped Project: Exploring Relevance And Rigor Of Action Research Using Established Principles And Criteria, Christine Chapman, Margo Paterson, Jennifer M. Medves Jan 2011

The Quipped Project: Exploring Relevance And Rigor Of Action Research Using Established Principles And Criteria, Christine Chapman, Margo Paterson, Jennifer M. Medves

The Qualitative Report

This paper is the last in a series of three manuscripts published in the TQR journal over the past few years. This work is part of a larger program of research that has been carried out by a team of researchers detailing various aspects of a three year action research project carried out from 2005 and 2008. This particular paper addresses issues of quality in action research by critiquing our research against five interdependent principles and criteria raised in the literature specifically by Davison, Martinson and Kock which was published in 2004. Our action research project aimed to facilitate interprofessional …


Youtube As A Qualitative Research Asset: Reviewing User Generated Videos As Learning Resources, Ronald J. Chenail Jan 2011

Youtube As A Qualitative Research Asset: Reviewing User Generated Videos As Learning Resources, Ronald J. Chenail

The Qualitative Report

YouTube, the video hosting service, offers students, teachers, and practitioners of qualitative researchers a unique reservoir of video clips introducing basic qualitative research concepts, sharing qualitative data from interviews and field observations, and presenting completed research studies. This web-based site also affords qualitative researchers the potential avenue to share their reusable learning resources for all interested parties to use.


Learning To Appraise The Quality Of Qualitative Research Articles: A Contextualized Learning Object For Constructing Knowledge, Ronald J. Chenail Jan 2011

Learning To Appraise The Quality Of Qualitative Research Articles: A Contextualized Learning Object For Constructing Knowledge, Ronald J. Chenail

The Qualitative Report

Helping beginning qualitative researchers critically appraise qualitative research articles is a common learning objective for introductory methodology courses. To aid students in achieving competency in appraising the quality of qualitative research articles, a multi-part activity incorporating the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme's (CASP) Making Sense of Evidence Tool: 10 Questions to Help You Make Sense of Qualitative Research to evaluate the articles is shared. A Contextualized Learning Object for Constructing Knowledge or CLOCK approach is used to represent the appraising activity in terms of its context, content, evaluation components, exemplary outcomes, and options for customizing parts of the assignment.


Interviewing The Investigator: Strategies For Addressing Instrumentation And Researcher Bias Concerns In Qualitative Research, Ronald J. Chenail Jan 2011

Interviewing The Investigator: Strategies For Addressing Instrumentation And Researcher Bias Concerns In Qualitative Research, Ronald J. Chenail

The Qualitative Report

Instrumentation rigor and bias management are major challenges for qualitative researchers employing interviewing as a data generation method in their studies. A usual procedure for testing the quality of an interview protocol and for identifying potential researcher biases is the pilot study in which investigators try out their proposed methods to see if the planned procedures perform as envisioned by the researcher. Sometimes piloting is not practical or possible so an "interviewing the investigator" technique can serve as a useful first step to create interview protocols that help to generate the information proposed and to assess potential researcher biases especially …


Communicating Qualitative Analytical Results Following Grice's Conversational Maxims, Jan S. Chenail, Ronald J. Chenail Jan 2011

Communicating Qualitative Analytical Results Following Grice's Conversational Maxims, Jan S. Chenail, Ronald J. Chenail

The Qualitative Report

Conducting qualitative research can be seen as a developing communication act through which researchers engage in a variety of conversations. Articulating the results of qualitative data analysis results can be an especially challenging part of this scholarly discussion for qualitative researchers. To help guide investigators through this difficult communicative process, the authors suggest Grice's (1989) Conversational Maxims of Quantity, Quality, Relation, and Manner as general guidelines to follow when formulating and presenting findings in qualitative research products as well as basic assumptions to guide readers when judging the quality of result representations.


Face-To-Face In Writing: My First Attempt At Conducting A Text-Based Online Focus Group, Steven R. Terrell Jan 2011

Face-To-Face In Writing: My First Attempt At Conducting A Text-Based Online Focus Group, Steven R. Terrell

The Qualitative Report

Having completed graduate degrees in educational research and counseling, I have studied the theory of focus groups and participated in many while in a classroom setting. Interestingly, I had never moderated one until my first attempt in a text-based online environment. This paper describes my preparation for the session as well as the issues I faced while actually conducted the focus group. Readers will find that being prepared by establishing rapport with their group prior to the event, understanding the change of dynamics that distance brings to the process and handling the pressures of an expanded role as moderator, will …


Utilizing Microsoft® Office To Produce And Present Recursive Frame Analysis Findings, Ronald J. Chenail, Maureen Duffy Jan 2011

Utilizing Microsoft® Office To Produce And Present Recursive Frame Analysis Findings, Ronald J. Chenail, Maureen Duffy

The Qualitative Report

Although researchers conducting qualitative descriptive studies, ethnographies, phenomenologies, grounded theory, and narrative inquiries commonly use computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) to manage their projects and analyses, investigators conducting discursive methodologies such as discourse or conversation analysis seem to find such software packages not as useful. In our work with Recursive Frame Analysis (RFA), a systemic approach to the analysis of text and talk, we have taken a slightly different route by utilizing Microsoft® Office applications to produce and present our RFA findings. In the paper we describe RFA, explain how we use Word and PowerPoint to carry out RFA's …


How I Learned To Conduct Focus Groups, Maribel Del Rio-Roberts Jan 2011

How I Learned To Conduct Focus Groups, Maribel Del Rio-Roberts

The Qualitative Report

The use of focus groups may provide researchers with important insights into research questions via participant discussion and interaction. As a human services practitioner and researcher, I became interested in learning how to conduct focus groups in order to apply these steps to my research and gain valuable insights about the human experience that the focus group interaction aims to bring to light. In this review, I will highlight the steps that I took to learn to conduct focus group research and through my experience I hope that readers gain familiarity and clarity into this unique qualitative research approach.


Unm's Science And Technology Corporation: The Impact Of Start-Up Companies, Unm Bureau Of Business And Economic Research Jan 2011

Unm's Science And Technology Corporation: The Impact Of Start-Up Companies, Unm Bureau Of Business And Economic Research

Office of the Vice President for Research

The University of New Mexicos Science & Technology Corporation (STC) is a nonprofit corporation formed for the purposes of protecting, commercializing and transferring faculty inventions and university patents and is a vital tool in the economic development of a high-tech industry in New Mexico.'


Translating Prevention Research Into Practive And Policy Through Community-Engaged Research, Evaluation And Service, Theresa Cruz, Sally Davis, Richard Kozoll, Anna Schulte, Shiraz Mishra Jan 2011

Translating Prevention Research Into Practive And Policy Through Community-Engaged Research, Evaluation And Service, Theresa Cruz, Sally Davis, Richard Kozoll, Anna Schulte, Shiraz Mishra

Posters and Presentations

How does a small, rural community effectively implement the CDC’s Community Guide recommendations for promoting physical activity?


The Impact Of U.S. Highway 550 Design On Health And Safety In Cuba, New Mexico, Unm Prevention Research Center, Viva-Step Into Cuba Alliance, Healthy Kids Healthy Cuba Jan 2011

The Impact Of U.S. Highway 550 Design On Health And Safety In Cuba, New Mexico, Unm Prevention Research Center, Viva-Step Into Cuba Alliance, Healthy Kids Healthy Cuba

Reports & Documents

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a set of procedures, methods and tools that estimate the effects of a policy, program or project on the health of a population. Ideally an HIA is conducted before the policy, program or project is implemented so that findings and recommendations can influence decision-making. An HIA can take a variety of different forms ranging from a “rapid” HIA that is written based on existing data and published literature to an HIA that could require months to complete and where local data is collected and analyzed to inform recommendations. The result of an HIA is evidence-based …


Aggressive Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma Presenting As Schwanoma : A Case Report, Mohammad Sohail Awan, Montasir Junaid, Zain A. Sobani Jan 2011

Aggressive Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma Presenting As Schwanoma : A Case Report, Mohammad Sohail Awan, Montasir Junaid, Zain A. Sobani

Department of Radiology

Rhabdomyosarcomas (RMS) are thought to arise from pluripotent muscle cell precursors intended to form the bodyís future striated muscle. Due to the wide distribution of striated muscle across the body these tumors may appear anywhere and cause symptoms accordingly. Presenting symptoms are highly variable and based on the tumor size and location making clinical diagnosis difficult. The diagnosis of RMS is based on histological examination; however they express varying cytologic pictures representing the different stages of rhabdomyoblasts and their development into skeletal muscle presenting pictures from highly to poorly differentiated neoplasms. Therefore their histological diagnosis also requires the use of …


Passion Play, By Beth Bernobich. Reviewed By Berni Phillips Bratman., Berni Phillips Bratman Jan 2011

Passion Play, By Beth Bernobich. Reviewed By Berni Phillips Bratman., Berni Phillips Bratman

Mythprint Book Reviews

Mythprint is the quarterly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local discussion groups.


The Sorcerer's Companion: A Guide To The Magical World Of Harry Potter, 3rd Ed., By Allan Zola Kronzek And Elizabeth Kronzek. Reviewed By Jason Fisher., Jason Fisher Jan 2011

The Sorcerer's Companion: A Guide To The Magical World Of Harry Potter, 3rd Ed., By Allan Zola Kronzek And Elizabeth Kronzek. Reviewed By Jason Fisher., Jason Fisher

Mythprint Book Reviews

Mythprint is the quarterly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local discussion groups.


Complete Score Of The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, By Howard Shore, Performed Live At Radio City Music Hall. Friday, October 8th 2010. Reviewed By Jessica Burke., Jessica Burke Jan 2011

Complete Score Of The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, By Howard Shore, Performed Live At Radio City Music Hall. Friday, October 8th 2010. Reviewed By Jessica Burke., Jessica Burke

Mythprint Book Reviews

Mythprint is the quarterly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local discussion groups.


Front Matter, New Mexico Law Review Jan 2011

Front Matter, New Mexico Law Review

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.


Introduction, Jennifer Duprez, D'Ontae Sylvertooth Jan 2011

Introduction, Jennifer Duprez, D'Ontae Sylvertooth

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.


Delicate Balances: Assessing The Needs And Rights Of Siblings In Foster Care To Maintain Their Relationships Post-Adoption, Randi Mandelbaum Jan 2011

Delicate Balances: Assessing The Needs And Rights Of Siblings In Foster Care To Maintain Their Relationships Post-Adoption, Randi Mandelbaum

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.


Lowering Standards: The Simultaneous-School-Bombing-And-Shooting-Threat Exception Or Armijo Ex. Rel. Armijo Sanchez V. Peterson, Jeff Fisher Jan 2011

Lowering Standards: The Simultaneous-School-Bombing-And-Shooting-Threat Exception Or Armijo Ex. Rel. Armijo Sanchez V. Peterson, Jeff Fisher

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.


Guest Worker Programs Are No Fix For Our Broken Immigration System: Evidence From The Northern Mariana Islands, Dorothy E. Hill Jan 2011

Guest Worker Programs Are No Fix For Our Broken Immigration System: Evidence From The Northern Mariana Islands, Dorothy E. Hill

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.


Federal Rule Of Evidence 502: The Get Out Of Jail Free Provision - Or Is It, Ann M. Murphy Jan 2011

Federal Rule Of Evidence 502: The Get Out Of Jail Free Provision - Or Is It, Ann M. Murphy

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.


Tangled Up In Knots: How Continued Federal Jurisdiction Over Sexual Predators On Indian Reservations Hobbles Effective Law Enforcement To The Detriment Of Indian Women, Suzianne D. Painter-Thorne Jan 2011

Tangled Up In Knots: How Continued Federal Jurisdiction Over Sexual Predators On Indian Reservations Hobbles Effective Law Enforcement To The Detriment Of Indian Women, Suzianne D. Painter-Thorne

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.


Untangling Ricci V. Destefano: The Wards Cove Of The Twenty-First Century, D'Ontae D. Sylvertooth Jan 2011

Untangling Ricci V. Destefano: The Wards Cove Of The Twenty-First Century, D'Ontae D. Sylvertooth

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.


Volume 51 Masthead, Natural Resources Journal Jan 2011

Volume 51 Masthead, Natural Resources Journal

NRJ Mastheads

No abstract provided.


Frontmatter, Natural Resources Journal Jan 2011

Frontmatter, Natural Resources Journal

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.


Introduction, Maggie Lane, Ashleigh Morris Jan 2011

Introduction, Maggie Lane, Ashleigh Morris

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.


Beyond Trust Species: The Conservation Potential Of The National Wildlife Refuge System In The Wake Of Climate Change, Robert L. Fischman, Robert S. Adamcik Jan 2011

Beyond Trust Species: The Conservation Potential Of The National Wildlife Refuge System In The Wake Of Climate Change, Robert L. Fischman, Robert S. Adamcik

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.


The Public Trust Navigates California's Bay Delta, Paul Stanton Kibel Jan 2011

The Public Trust Navigates California's Bay Delta, Paul Stanton Kibel

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.


The Convergence Of Water Rights, Structural Change, Technology, And Hydrology: A Case Study Of New Mexico's Lower Rio Grande, Rhonda Skaggs, Zohrab Samani, A. Salim Bawazir, Max Bleiweiss Jan 2011

The Convergence Of Water Rights, Structural Change, Technology, And Hydrology: A Case Study Of New Mexico's Lower Rio Grande, Rhonda Skaggs, Zohrab Samani, A. Salim Bawazir, Max Bleiweiss

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.


Showdown At Catron: Cows, Wolves, And The Ecology Of Public Lands Policies, Raymond B. Wrabley Jr. Jan 2011

Showdown At Catron: Cows, Wolves, And The Ecology Of Public Lands Policies, Raymond B. Wrabley Jr.

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.