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Research E-Journaling to Enhance Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research: Mitigating Human Limits in Perception, Cognition, and Decision-Making

Research E-Journaling to Enhance Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research: Mitigating Human Limits in Perception, Cognition, and Decision-Making

Shalin Hai-Jew
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 46
ISBN13: 9781466674561|ISBN10: 1466674563|EISBN13: 9781466674578
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7456-1.ch032
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Hai-Jew, Shalin. "Research E-Journaling to Enhance Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research: Mitigating Human Limits in Perception, Cognition, and Decision-Making." Research Methods: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 673-718. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7456-1.ch032

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Hai-Jew, S. (2015). Research E-Journaling to Enhance Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research: Mitigating Human Limits in Perception, Cognition, and Decision-Making. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Research Methods: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 673-718). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7456-1.ch032

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Hai-Jew, Shalin. "Research E-Journaling to Enhance Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research: Mitigating Human Limits in Perception, Cognition, and Decision-Making." In Research Methods: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 673-718. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7456-1.ch032

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Abstract

In qualitative and mixed methods research, the researcher and/or research team are critical elements in the research. Given perceptual, cognitive, and memory limitations, human researchers can often bring these shortcomings to their research and decision-making. To combat such tendencies, researcher reflection, self-awareness, and self-critique are seen as some research controls, as are various standardizations in research to control for bias and to provide for multiple points-of-view. One tool that has long been used for researcher reflection to promote research quality has been the research journal. Research journals are field texts created by the researcher or a research team to make sense of the research work; these are professional forms of narrative analyses or narrative inquiries to enhance researcher self-consciousness of their work, their reasoning, their decision-making, and their conclusions. A contemporaneous electronic version of the qualitative or mixed methods research journal is multimedia-based (including visuals, audio, and video) and may be built in data management software programs, shared cloud-based work sites, or simple folders or digital objects. Guided research e-journals may be structured for the elicitation and capture of specific information to ensure researcher attentiveness, awareness, mindfulness, and thoroughness. Guided electronic journaling (used prior to, during, and post-research) may be used to enhance research quality. This chapter proposes a partial typology of guided structures for research journaling and suggests channels for publishing and distributing research e-journals.

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