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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Qualitative research (Research methodology)"”.
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Assessing Yukon's current approach to regional land use planning : perspectives from the North Yukon planning process
… planning has been in place since 1993. Through qualitative, interview-based research, I explore possible factors that either hinder or facilitate successful planning. I used the North Yukon regional land use planning effort as a case study example of the first plan to be successfully approved in …
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The Twitter experience : the role of Twitter in the formation and maintenance of personal learning networks
This qualitative phenomenological study involving in-depth interviews with seven educators in K-12 and higher education examines the role that the microblogging service Twitter plays in the formation and development of Personal Learning Networks (PLN) among educators. A double hermeneutic data …
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Exploring Explore : determining whether students' environmental worldview transforms through an outdoor education program
This richly descriptive qualitative study examines the ability of a Grade 11 outdoor education program to transform student environmental worldviews. This exploratory research investigates the current environmental attitudes and beliefs of a random sample of eight graduates of the G. P. Vanier …
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Staff responses to implementing environmentally sustainable change at federal fish hatcheries in BC
… infrastructure renewal and hatchery operations. Qualitative research was conducted to investigate this phenomenon, using face-to-face interviews with nine hatchery staff across British Columbia. The interviews were audiotaped and transcribed verbatim, and participants‘ responses remained …
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Developing boundary-spanning relationships : learning through success stories
This research addresses the following questions: how do successful professionals cultivate boundary-spanning relationships to develop professional goods; and what lessons can be drawn from their successes? This study uses grounded theory to interpret qualitative interview data from four expert …
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Effect of WebCT tool usage on maintenance of treatment standards by denturist practicum students
… data used to enhance and support a mainly qualitative design. Results showed that all elements of a CoI were present in the online environment and that participants voluntarily used WebCT communications tools for academic and social interaction. Standards of treatment on practical projects …
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Chinese perspectives on environmental sustainability : the shaping of public opinion
… on environmentalism. This case study was a qualitative analysis that was informed by both grounded theory and ethnographic content analysis (ECA) conducted through fifteen open-ended interviews with Chinese citizens and content analysis of government documents and media coverage that pertain …
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Convergence and collaboration : integrating cultural and natural resource management
… both historic and natural resources. A qualitative inductive study included analysis of interview and focus group data for the site and similar protected heritage areas. The gap between integrative policies and the tendency for uni-disciplinary approaches to the practice of managing …
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Playing with dolls : use of simulation technology in the Thompson Rivers University respiratory therapy program
… University respiratory therapy training program. Qualitative analysis of data gathered from 78 participants through interviews, observations, and discussion groups reveal a wide variety of low- intermediate- and high-fidelity technologies used for education and evaluation. Deliberate practice is …