This week students began the qualitative analysis of our data by transcribing four questions from their interviews. As Dr. Sickel mentioned in her post this week, this is a very hands on way to examine data and gives you an opportunity to carefully consider how the participants felt about their health provider and how they described him or her.
We had a lab meeting via the GotoMeeting software Tuesday evening, students had the opportunity to ask questions about all of the data analyses and the faculty were able to also to get a feel for areas in which students needed more help. I think this is such a critical aspect of the lab – getting a chance to talk to the students and let them ask questions in the lab meetings.
The faculty have been working on the syllabus for next quarter, when the students will be writing up the manuscript for submission to a journal. We have been struggling with the question of where the line is between student guidance and doing it ourselves. It is a gray area that we have constantly debated, and becomes critical when we will be putting our names on the article too. A great example of this gray area was with the quantitative data analyses, we decided that we would have them spend a few weeks running some small analyses in their area of expertise then I would run the full analyses, which we will use later. We want them to have the experience of data analyses and writing but know that we are there if there are issues and that we will double check their work.
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