MITE6025

• Determine and define the research questions
  
• Select the cases and determine data gathering and analysis techniques
• Prepare
  to collect the data
• Collect data in the field
• Evaluate and analyze the
  data
• Prepare the report

Data gathered is normally largely qualitative,
but it may also be quantitative. Tools to collect data can include surveys, interviews,
documentation review, observation, and even the collection of physical artifacts.

flexible, but when changes are made, they are documented systematically.

Field notes
record feelings and intuitive hunches, pose questions, and document the work in
progress. They record testimonies, stories, and illustrations which can be used
in later reports. They may warn of impending bias because of the detailed exposure
of the client to special attention, or give an early signal that a pattern is
emerging. They assist in determining whether or not the inquiry needs to be reformulated
or redefined based on what is being observed. Field notes should be kept separate
from the data being collected and stored for analysis.

he researcher documents,
classifies, and cross-references all evidence so that it can be efficiently recalled
for sorting and examination over the course of the study.

Researchers categorize,
tabulate, and recombine data to address the initial propositions or purpose of
the study, and conduct cross-checks of facts and discrepancies in accounts. Focused,
short, repeat interviews may be necessary to gather additional data to verify
key observations or check a fact.

document
review audience include a journalist and some suggest that the documents should
be reviewed by the participants in the study.