Distributor’s selection is an important issue in Supply Chain Management, particularly in the current competitive environment. The current research works provide only conceptual, descriptive, and simulation results focusing mainly on firms’ resources and general marketing factors. The selection and evaluation of distributors generally incorporate qualitative information; however, analyzing qual...

With the advent of Outcomes-Based Education in South Africa, the quality of nursing education is debatable, especially with regard to the assessment and evaluation of clinical nursing education, which is complex and renders the validity and reliability of the methods used questionable. This paper seeks to explore and describe the use of portfolio assessment and evaluation, its implications and ...

Method: A qualitative approach using a cross-sectional descriptive design was adopted. The target population was all HCWs from the seven hospitals of Vhembe district. A purposive sampling approach was used to select 57 participants. The approval to conduct this study was obtained from the relevant authorities and participants. Data was collected through seven focus group discussions comprising ...

Part of teaching the descriptive phenomenological psychological method is to assist students in grasping their previously unrecognized assumptions regarding the meaning of “science.” This paper is intended to address a variety of assumptions that are encountered when introducing students to the descriptive phenomenological psychological method pioneered by Giorgi. These assumptions are: 1) That...

The primary focus in computational modeling research in high order human cognition is to compare how realistically embedded algorithm describes human cognitive processes. However, several current models incorporated learning algorithms that apparently have questionable descriptive validity or qualitative plausibleness. The present research attempts to bridge this gap by identifying five critica...

This study examined qualitative research on adolescent pregnancy to determine designs and methods used and to discover emergent themes across studies. Most of the 22 studies reviewed were described as qualitative or phenomenological by design and included samples comprising either African-American and Caucasian participants or African-Americans exclusively. Based on analysis of the collective p...