Research, art, and rigor: Verifying themes using found data poetry
Location
1054
Format Type
Event
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
January 2019
End Date
January 2019
Abstract
The need for verification and evaluation of themes in qualitative research is important for further developing the rigor of the research. When tools and techniques are provided to assist in the verification process, then the researcher has more options to improve the quality of the qualitative results. Much of the existing material directed toward the qualitative researcher, wherever they are on the learning spectrum, covers the space from research design to data presentation and comparatively little information is available, for either the researcher or others, to evaluate the qualitative research after the presentation has occurred. An iterative process of checking and evaluating throughout the research process is important and a post-presentation reflection will also serve to strengthen the material even further. Unfortunately, there may be a tendency for a researcher to submit their findings in the form of a spoken presentation or a written article and then move on to the next project with apparent minimal lasting concern for past efforts. In this case, an arts based research approach is used to verify the themes that were presented in a past research project. The application of this approach has the potential to address the gap in the research method that exists at the end of the research process – specifically by bolstering the post-presentation evaluation for one’s own research or the research of others where the collected data is available. Through the application of found data research poetry to my own past research, the impact of an arts based approach to research evaluation is demonstrated as a way to strengthen the rigor of the research process and make a contribution to qualitative research methods.
Keywords
rigor, arts based research, verification, themes, found data poetry
Research, art, and rigor: Verifying themes using found data poetry
1054
The need for verification and evaluation of themes in qualitative research is important for further developing the rigor of the research. When tools and techniques are provided to assist in the verification process, then the researcher has more options to improve the quality of the qualitative results. Much of the existing material directed toward the qualitative researcher, wherever they are on the learning spectrum, covers the space from research design to data presentation and comparatively little information is available, for either the researcher or others, to evaluate the qualitative research after the presentation has occurred. An iterative process of checking and evaluating throughout the research process is important and a post-presentation reflection will also serve to strengthen the material even further. Unfortunately, there may be a tendency for a researcher to submit their findings in the form of a spoken presentation or a written article and then move on to the next project with apparent minimal lasting concern for past efforts. In this case, an arts based research approach is used to verify the themes that were presented in a past research project. The application of this approach has the potential to address the gap in the research method that exists at the end of the research process – specifically by bolstering the post-presentation evaluation for one’s own research or the research of others where the collected data is available. Through the application of found data research poetry to my own past research, the impact of an arts based approach to research evaluation is demonstrated as a way to strengthen the rigor of the research process and make a contribution to qualitative research methods.
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