Learn about how key action research principles allow for inclusion of marginalized people in this presentation from Alfredo Ortiz Aragon.

View a conversation between Ernie Stringer and long-time collaborator Darryl Kickett.

Watch the webinar recording and read the follow-up blog from our webinar with SAGE 2020 Concept Grant winner, Andrew Lovett-Barron, on how to design trust relationships with participants in research using Knowsi.

Learn more about the new edition of Action Research from Ernie Stringer and Alfredo Ortiz Aragon.

Teaching and learning online: new podcasts, tips, and a book.

“We haven’t met yet. Do you trust me?”

This is the dilemma that any researcher faces at the outset of their recruiting process — to find people who are willing to share their stories, experiences, frustrations, and victories with a total stranger. The secret to building trust often comes down to explaining in person while performing the interview — creating a rapport with the research participant and listening deeply and critically to their stories.

This interview was a show-and-tell about analyzing online talk.

As technology becomes more integral to everything we do, the time we spend in front of screens such as smartphones and computers continues to increase. The pervasiveness of screen time has raised concerns among researchers, policymakers, educators, and health care professionals about the effects of digital technology on well-being. Despite growing concerns about digital well-being, it has been a challenge for scientists to measure how we actually navigate the digital landscape through our screens. For example, it is well documented that self-reports of one’s media use are often inaccurate despite survey respondents’ best efforts. Just knowing screen time spent on individual applications does not fully capture a person’s usage of the digital device either. Some could spend an hour on YouTube watching people play video games whereas others might spend the same amount of time watching late night television talk shows to keep up to date with the news. Even though the screen time is the same for the same application, the intentions and values of consumption of certain types of content can be vastly different among users.

Check out this open-access special issue on "Research Ethics and COVID-19" and an interview with the editors.

How are researchers changing their attitudes and approaches to respond to the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic? Learn about emerging methods that will be useful as researchers make greater use of online methods.

When reading a visualization, is what we see really what we get? There are a lot of ways that visualizations can mislead us, such that they appear to show us something interesting that disappears on closer inspection. Such visualization mirages can lead us to see patterns or draw conclusions that don’t exist in our data. We analyze these quarrelsome entities and provide a testing strategy for dispelling them.

There’s a validity problem with automated content analysis. In this post, Dr. Chung-hong Chan introduces a new tool that provides a set of simple and standardized tests for frequently used text analytic tools and gives examples of validity tests you can apply to your research right away.

Trena Paulus and Jessica Lester discuss changes in online research and updates to their book, Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World.

Use more than one approach to keep online learners engaged!

A research conversation about online learning and dissertation preparation with Dr. Linda Bloomberg.

Help struggling students and keep them engaged.

Make e-learning accessible!