BN assisted with the data collection and constructed the tissue microarrays.
Questions guiding data collection were constructed by the project team as part of an on-going monitoring and evaluation activity and a doctoral research project, which are integral to the overall programme.
A customizable data collection application was constructed using Pendragon Forms 3.0 (Pendragon Software Corporation, Libertyville, Illinois, USA. ), and installed into each PDA.
For the data strand in year 4, the curriculum states that students should 'Select and trial methods for data collection … Construct suitable data displays, with and without the use of digital technologies … Include tables, column graphs … Evaluate the effectiveness of different displays in illustrating data features including variability' (p. 45).
Birth cohort parent participants are unique and crucial stakeholders to secondary use as they participate alongside their children in long-term, detailed data collection on myriad constructs (e.g. physical, emotional, developmental and social data) (Golding et al. 2009).
We have discussed the importance of opportunities to design investigations so students can learn the importance of decisions surrounding what and when to measure, how and where to sample or observe, what to keep constant, and how to select or construct data collection tools and instruments that are appropriate to the needs of an inquiry.
Safety researchers are frequently faced with a dilemma in field research: whether to increase both participant engagement and the efficiency of their data collection by using brief construct measures, or to instead use exhaustive and thorough measures to capture the full range of statistical variance in relationships of interest.
Data generators who use sophisticated survey methodologies or information technology models to construct data collection instruments feel themselves firmly on the side of science, whereas policy analysts associate themselves more closely with political and social agendas that are, and should be, value-based.
AOIs were constructed before data collection to avoid post hoc bias.
