Virtualized ethnography: on-line participant observation and semi-structured interview

Semi-structured interview protocol for constructing logic models.

This paper details a semi-structured interview protocol that evaluators can use to develop a logic model of a program's services and outcomes. The protocol presents a series of questions, which evaluators can ask of specific program informants, that are designed to: (1) identify key informants basic background and contextual information, (2) generate logic model elements, (3) model program inpu...

A semi-structured interview for psychological autopsy in suicide cases.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the applicability and the interrater reliability of a Semi-Structured Interview for psychological autopsy in cases of suicide. METHOD The Semi-Structured Interview for Psychological Autopsy (SSIPA) proposed in this paper consists of four modules which evaluate key-topics associated to suicide. In order to evaluate the instrument's applicability, a sample formed by 42 ...

Ethnography, education and on-line research

OLERA: On-Line Extraction Rule Analysis for Semi-structured Documents

The vast amount of online information available has led to renewed interest in information extraction (IE) systems that analyze input documents to produce a structured representation of selected information from the documents. Information extraction from semistructured documents has been studied extensively recently. Most researches focus on supervised learning approaches where targets must be ...

observation in grounded theory and ethnography: what are the differences?