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Record W7125681581 · doi:10.17169/fqs-27.1.4555

Making Data From Drawing: How Step-by-Step Protocols Can Enrich Reflexive Inquiry in Qualitative Research

2025· article· en· W7125681581 on OpenAlexafffund
Fiona P. McDonald, Emilie Isch, Suzi Asa, Donna Langille

Bibliographic record

VenueForum: Qualitative Social Research (Freie Universität Berlin) · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicParticipatory Visual Research Methods
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaConcordia University
KeywordsReflexivityQualitative researchProtocol (science)Process (computing)Qualitative propertyProtocol analysis

Abstract

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In qualitative research, what happens when reflexivity is made explicit? In some instances, researchers may encounter phenomena that run counter to the cultural norms and expectations that shape their everyday lives. We present in this article a qualitative protocol titled A Method for Creative Reflexive Data in Autoethnography—an experimental method for creative reflexive data that enables researchers to follow a step-by-step protocol using drawing. This is achieved by presenting the analytical mechanics underlying each step of the experimental method, thereby making a researcher's reflexive process more visible in data production. We share two objectives in this article: First, to present a programmatic case for the protocol as a (more-than-reproducible) way of making any qualitative method more explicit; second, to report on the specifics of a new method that helps render the analytic process visible at each step.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.108
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.064
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Meta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Open science, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.666
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.1080.064
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.010
Science and technology studies0.0070.011
Scholarly communication0.0010.004
Open science0.0060.004
Research integrity0.0010.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.934
GPT teacher head0.792
Teacher spread0.142 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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