FALL Seminar Series

FALL SEMINAR SERIES

Qualitative METHODS

Gery Ryan

The Qualitative Methods Seminar is composed of five (5) 2-hour sessions in which students are guided on the topics pertaining to Selection Research Questions & Developing Frameworks and Developing Protocols. In addition, students review Interviewing Skills, Data Management, and Data Analysis and Write-Up. These topics impart skill and knowledge which can be applied to scholar research projects.

IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE

Moira Inkelas

The Implementation Science Seminar introduces fellows to improvement concepts in preparation for HPM 215B (“Applied Methods for Improvement/Implementation Science”) and serves as a prerequisite in the implementation science track. Fellows develop a working knowledge of quality improvement and analytic tools and methods. In addition, fellows are provided practical advice that can be applied in their own improvement project work.

SURVEY DESIGN

Sandy Berry

Survey Design familiarizes students with the basics of instrument design. Each session includes lecture, discussion of the lecture topic, and interactive work on questionnaires the students are designing. Assignments are a brief one or two-page description of the student’s project on which they can receive constructive feedback. As time permits, instruction covers putting a questionnaire together and pre-testing to check analysis goals are met. In conclusion of the seminar, students should have a foundation and understanding of finding and evaluating existing measures, use of focus groups to understand research problems and develop survey items, developing new items and cognitive testing, as well as psychometric testing and validation – multi-trait scaling and IRT. The Survey Design seminars are led by Sandy Berry, M.A. with Julie A. Brown and Dr. Ron Hays as guests on selected topics.

WRITING SEMINAR

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