Ethnographic practices: Ethnographers engage in fieldwork.
While the quality of an ethnographic study should not be measured by length of its fieldwork, a minimum ethnographic fieldwork length of at least 12 months is considered desirable [ 32].
This ethnographic study examined family caregivers' perceptions of the effectiveness of comfort measures used at home for children with vaso-occlusive episodes (VOE) of sickle cell disease.
Here, we iteratively combined qualitative ethnographic and psychometric methods to identify emergent outcomes to be measured, and to develop tools for that measurement.
Through an ethnographic approach, the aim is to broaden the scope of investigation and measure the usability of tools for musicians in a real world setting.
Main outcome measures National statistics on invitations sent, HealthSpace accounts created, and interviews and ethnographic observation of patients and carers.
Developing a 'strong' LSP performance measure, as informed by applied linguistic theory and practice, and involving ethnographic studies, analyses of the authentic exchanges and SME input into a revised scorecard, is argued to add validity to this tool.
However, even in light of these limitations, the results are stable, as confirmed by the author's long-term participation and ethnographic work in the region, and strong, as suggested by the significance of the quantitative measures.
Farmworkers' knowledge about pesticides has generally been measured relative to prevailing scientific data, while beliefs come from more exploratory, ethnographic investigations.
Drawing on an ethnographic study across a number of sites, we show how some organisations instead of conforming to a single measure are 'transforming' to respond to the challenge of multiple rankings, by constructing and elaborating new forms of expertise, knowledge and connection with rankers.
