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Complex Teams and Qualitative Research

2020· book-chapter· en· W3084283457 on OpenAlexaff
Judith Davidson

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2020
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicQualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQualitative researchSet (abstract data type)Engineering ethicsField (mathematics)DisciplineKnowledge managementManagement scienceSociologyComputer scienceEngineeringSocial science

Abstract

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Abstract Qualitative researchers are increasingly called on to take part in research teams with complex mixes of disciplinary, methodological, and global connections. Unfortunately, many are not well prepared to work in these circumstances. Moreover, the leaders of these teams often lack knowledge of the ways qualitative researchers could enrich team processes through the unique characteristics of qualitative research and the special skills those trained in this methodological approach could bring to the project. Social scientists have few curricular materials or instructional models to guide them in learning how to better integrate qualitative researchers on team research projects. This goal of this chapter is to bring attention to this issue and raise key concerns that will require attention to address this issue. The chapter provides an overview of the small body of research that has developed in regard to qualitative research and complex teams and then raises a set of four key issues that need attention: (a) making the best use of qualitative research on a team; (b) selecting digital tools; (c) attending to new developments in writing; and (d) addressing issues of social justice. Also included is a discussion of the curricular issues that must be considered as the field moves forward to consider the ways qualitative researchers can best enter this new world of complex teams.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.038
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.032
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.962
Threshold uncertainty score0.203

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0380.032
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0050.023
Scholarly communication0.0100.009
Open science0.0020.006
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.528
GPT teacher head0.536
Teacher spread0.009 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
DomainMethods
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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