scholarly journals Qualitative Research on Legal Education: Studying Outstanding Law Teachers

2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 925 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald F. Hess

This article advocates that law schools and law teachers should use high quality, rigorous, qualitative research to help them make thoughtful changes in response to current challenges facing legal education. Regardless of the type of study, qualitative research involves a five stage process: (1) study design and ethics; (2) sampling; (3) data collection; (4) data analysis; and (5) the research report.This article illustrates each stage of the qualitative research process through a study of outstanding law teachers that was reported in the recent book, What the Best Law Teachers Do. This book is based on a study that was designed to identify the characteristics and practices of extraordinary law teachers who have significant, positive, long-term effects on their students.

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ikha Ardianti

ABSTRAKKasus bullying pada  anak mengalami peningkatan setiap tahun. Bullying pada anak memberikan berbagai dampak negatif yang berbeda-beda dan dapat menjadi sangat mengkhawatirkan sebab dapat menimbulkan dampak jangka panjang di sepanjang kehidupan anak. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi secara mendalam pengalaman anak usia remaja dengan bullying di Kabupaten Bojonegoro tahun 2017. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan fenomenologi. Partisipan dalam penelitian ini adalah remaja yang mengalami bullying yang berusia 12-19 tahun yang berjumlah 6 partisipan. Analisa data menggunakan analisa tematik menurut Colaizz’s method.Hasil penelitian ini teridentifikasi 5 tema yaitu ; 1) Bentuk bullying yang dialami oleh remaja, 2) Kondisi saat mengalami bullying, 3) Dampak setelah mengalami bullying, 4) Mekanisme koping yang dilakukan, 5) Harapan setelah mengalami bullying.Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, peneliti merekomendasikan bahwa; perawat anak diharapkan melakukan pengembangan model perawatan pada remaja dengan bullying dan melakukan pengembangan model pencegahan bullying  pada remaja dan diperlukan adanya penyusunan kurikulum pendidikan bagi perawat yang di dalamnya terdapat mata kuliah dengan target kompetensinya mahasiswa mampu memiliki kompetensi yaitu dapat memberikan konseling bagi kliennya.Kata kunci: pengetahuan, attitude, perilakuk konsumsi jajanan sehat, SDN Kadipaten 03 Bojonegoro.ABSTRACTCases of bullying in children are increasing every year. Bullying in children provides many different negative effects and can be very worrying because they can have long-term effects throughout a child's life. This study aims to explore in depth the experiences of teenagers with bullying in Bojonegoro District in 2017. This study used qualitative research design with phenomenology approach. Participants in this study were adolescents who experienced bullying aged 12-19 years, amounting to 6 participants. Data analysis using thematic analysis according to Colaizz's method.The results of this study identified 5 themes namely; 1) The form of bullying experienced by teenagers, 2) Conditions when experiencing bullying, 3) Impact after experiencing bullying, 4) Coping mechanism is done, 5) Hope after experiencing bullying.Based on the results of the study, the researchers recommend that; the child nurse is expected to develop the model of treatment in adolescents with bullying and develop the prevention model of bullying in adolescents and it is necessary to prepare the curriculum of education for nurses in which there are subjects with competence targets students are able to have the competence that can provide counseling for their clients.Key Words: knowledge, attitude, behavior of healthy snack consumption, SDN Kadipaten 03 Bojonegoro.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ikha Ardianti ◽  
Mohamad Roni Al-faqih

ABSTRAKKasus bullying pada  anak mengalami peningkatan setiap tahun. Bullying pada anak memberikan berbagai dampak negatif yang berbeda-beda dan dapat menjadi sangat mengkhawatirkan sebab dapat menimbulkan dampak jangka panjang di sepanjang kehidupan anak. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi secara mendalam pengalaman anak usia remaja dengan bullying di Kabupaten Bojonegoro tahun 2017. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan fenomenologi. Partisipan dalam penelitian ini adalah remaja yang mengalami bullying yang berusia 12-19 tahun yang berjumlah 6 partisipan. Analisa data menggunakan analisa tematik menurut Colaizz’s method.Hasil penelitian ini teridentifikasi 5 tema yaitu ; 1) Bentuk bullying yang dialami oleh remaja, 2) Kondisi saat mengalami bullying, 3) Dampak setelah mengalami bullying, 4) Mekanisme koping yang dilakukan, 5) Harapan setelah mengalami bullying.Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, peneliti merekomendasikan bahwa; perawat anak diharapkan melakukan pengembangan model perawatan pada remaja dengan bullying dan melakukan pengembangan model pencegahan bullying  pada remaja dan diperlukan adanya penyusunan kurikulum pendidikan bagi perawat yang di dalamnya terdapat mata kuliah dengan target kompetensinya mahasiswa mampu memiliki kompetensi yaitu dapat memberikan konseling bagi kliennya Kata Kunci : remaja, bullying, pengalaman    ABSTRACTCases of bullying in children are increasing every year. Bullying in children provides many different negative effects and can be very worrying because they can have long-term effects throughout a child's life. This study aims to explore in depth the experiences of teenagers with bullying in Bojonegoro District in 2017. This study used qualitative research design with phenomenology approach. Participants in this study were adolescents who experienced bullying aged 12-19 years, amounting to 6 participants. Data analysis using thematic analysis according to Colaizz's method.The results of this study identified 5 themes namely; 1) The form of bullying experienced by teenagers, 2) Conditions when experiencing bullying, 3) Impact after experiencing bullying, 4) Coping mechanism is done, 5) Hope after experiencing bullying.Based on the results of the study, the researchers recommend that; the child nurse is expected to develop the model of treatment in adolescents with bullying and do the model development of prevention of bullying in adolescents and the necessary preparation of educational curriculum for nurses in which there are subjects with competence targets students are able to have the competence that can provide counseling for clients Keywords: teenagers, bullying, experience


2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilana G. Raskind ◽  
Rachel C. Shelton ◽  
Dawn L. Comeau ◽  
Hannah L. F. Cooper ◽  
Derek M. Griffith ◽  
...  

Data analysis is one of the most important, yet least understood, stages of the qualitative research process. Through rigorous analysis, data can illuminate the complexity of human behavior, inform interventions, and give voice to people’s lived experiences. While significant progress has been made in advancing the rigor of qualitative analysis, the process often remains nebulous. To better understand how our field conducts and reports qualitative analysis, we reviewed qualitative articles published in Health Education & Behavior between 2000 and 2015. Two independent reviewers abstracted information in the following categories: data management software, coding approach, analytic approach, indicators of trustworthiness, and reflexivity. Of the 48 ( n = 48) articles identified, the majority ( n = 31) reported using qualitative software to manage data. Double-coding transcripts was the most common coding method ( n = 23); however, nearly one third of articles did not clearly describe the coding approach. Although the terminology used to describe the analytic process varied widely, we identified four overarching trajectories common to most articles ( n = 37). Trajectories differed in their use of inductive and deductive coding approaches, formal coding templates, and rounds or levels of coding. Trajectories culminated in the iterative review of coded data to identify emergent themes. Few articles explicitly discussed trustworthiness or reflexivity. Member checks ( n = 9), triangulation of methods ( n = 8), and peer debriefing ( n = 7) were the most common procedures. Variation in the type and depth of information provided poses challenges to assessing quality and enabling replication. Greater transparency and more intentional application of diverse analytic methods can advance the rigor and impact of qualitative research in our field.


Author(s):  
Amber Sechelski ◽  
Anthony Onwuegbuzie

The analysis of data represents the most important and difficult step in the qualitative research process. Thus, recently, a few authors have written methodological works that contain discussion of an array of qualitative data analysis approaches. Yet, despite the call of Leech and Onwuegbuzie (2007) a decade ago for qualitative researchers to analyze a given set of qualitative data in multiple ways, this practice has been largely ignored. Thus, in this article, we bolster the argument for conducting multiple data analyses. In particular, we use data stemming from an interview to demonstrate how using five qualitative data analysis approaches (e.g., constant comparison analysis, discourse analysis) helped to enhance what we refer to as analysis saturation, thereby increasing verstehen (i.e., understanding).


Author(s):  
Steven J. Holochwost ◽  
Lindsay A. Gomes ◽  
Cathi B. Propper ◽  
Eleanor D. Brown ◽  
Iheoma U. Iruka

High-quality early care and education can mitigate the short- and long-term effects of poverty on young children’s development. Therefore, policies that expand access to high-quality early care and education can be an effective anti-poverty strategy. A number of programs demonstrably foster volitional processes of self-regulation—the capacity to control emotions, thoughts, and behaviors—among young children in poverty. However, relatively little is known about how the activity of the neurophysiological systems that form the interface between brain and body supports these processes of self-regulation in early care and education settings. Maximizing the efficacy of early care and education as an anti-poverty strategy requires adopting policies to advance three interrelated goals: understanding, accommodating, and reconfiguring young children’s neurophysiological function in the early care and education environment.


Author(s):  
Adel Ismail Al-Alawi ◽  
Sara Abdulrahman Al-Bassam ◽  
Arpita A. Mehrotra

One common reason for cybercrime is the goal of damaging a business by hacking or destroying important information. Another such reason is the criminal's goal of gaining financially from the hack. This chapter analyzes Bahraini organizations' vulnerability to digital security threats. It has used qualitative research to analyze industry performance. Moreover, with the support of secondary research, it has also explored cybersecurity threats faced by such organizations. The discussion based on secondary data analysis has explored two major aspects of Bahraini organizations and the cybersecurity threats they face. Firstly, the data and finances of both sectors are at huge risk in Bahraini organizations. Secondly, one important aspect of exploration has been to identify the most frequently encountered forms of cybercrime. Its analysis reveals that the kind of cybersecurity threat that a business is most likely to face is cyberwarfare. This may affect two rival businesses while they are competing with each other. Competitors' data may be destroyed or hacked—leading to long-term losses.


2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 704-706 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Pollock

In his most recent book, James Scott presents us with a ‘deep history’ of the alluvial lowlands of Mesopotamia, from early domestications in the Neolithic to the emergence and consolidation of early states. Although the focus lies on Mesopotamia in these periods, Scott delves into the beginnings of the human use of fire in the Palaeolithic and draws on comparative developments in Southeast Asia, Egypt, Greece, Rome and elsewhere. He poses large questions: Why did people move into densely packed villages—‘Neolithic multispecies resettlement camps’—accompanied by the plants and animals they domesticated, but also by an exponentially increased disease load and a substantial portion of drudgery? Why did states emerge when they did, despite the fact that the main ecological and demographic conditions were present millennia earlier? What accounts for the fragility of these early states, and why do our standard histories obscure that fact? Guiding themes are ecological and demographic, but also draw explicit attention to the unintended consequences of human actions. Indeed, reflections on the Anthropocene underpin the book's arguments, and, like many others who write on this topic, Scott is motivated by deep-seated concerns about the sorry ecological state of our contemporary world and connections to long-term effects of human activity.


1989 ◽  
Vol 238 (1291) ◽  
pp. 137-154 ◽  

Synapses that can be strengthened in temporary and persistent manners by two separate mechanisms are shown to have powerful advantages in neural networks that perform auto-associative recall and recognition. A multiplicative relation between the two weights allows the same set of connections to be used in a closely interactive way for short-term and long-term memory. Algorithms and simulations are described for the storage, consolidation and recall of patterns that have been presented only once to a network. With double modifiability, the short-term performance is dramatically improved, becoming almost independent of the amount of long-term experience. The high quality of short-term recall allows consolidation to take place, with benefits from the selection and optimization of long term engram s to take account of relations between stored patterns. Long-term capacity is greater than short-term capacity, with little or no deficit compared with that, obtained with singly modifiable synapses. Long-term recall requires special, simply implemented, procedures for increasing the temporary weights of the synapses being used to initiate recall. A consolidation algorithm is described for improving long-term recall when there is overlap between patterns. Confusional errors are reduced by strengthening the associations between non-overlapping elements in the patterns, in a two-stage process that has several of the characteristics of sleep.


2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 160940692096870
Author(s):  
Lindsay Giesen ◽  
Allison Roeser

Improvements to qualitative data analysis software (QDAS) have both facilitated and complicated the qualitative research process. This technology allows us to work with a greater volume of data than ever before, but the increased volume of data frequently requires a large team to process and code. This paper presents insights on how to successfully structure and manage a team of staff in coding qualitative data. We draw on our experience in team-based coding of 154 interview transcripts for a study of school meal programs. The team consisted of four coders, three senior reviewers, and a lead analyst and external qualitative methodologist who shepherded the coding process together. Lessons learned from this study include: 1) establish a strong and supportive management structure; 2) build skills gradually by breaking training and coding into “bite-sized” pieces; and 3) develop detailed reference materials to guide your coding team.


2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 314-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richa Saxena

The article is written as a travelogue by the author while exploring the passage of qualitative research in her maiden independent research work—her dissertation. The author describes in the article how her journey of qualitative research took shape right from the take-off point: the choice of topic and methodology to the data collection, analysis and presentation of the findings. The article also throws light on the various experiences of the researcher during the journey including the issues and challenges faced by her in different stages of the study like the research proposal stage, data collection stage and the data analysis stage. The objective of the article is to familiarize the qualitative researchers, who are currently at the beginner stage, with the possible issues and pitfalls of qualitative research process. For that the author has used her own experiences to explain the nuances of the process. In the article, the author also highlights that irrespective of the challenges faced in the process how the research study helped her in developing herself as a better researcher and a wiser person, making her efforts fruitful and providing her a sense of achievement.


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