Discussion 1: Analysis
of Assessment Data
This week, you
revisit methods for data assessment and analysis including software and
computers. These tools have enabled researchers to collect, clean, manage, and
analyze quantitative and qualitative data at high speed. For example, GIS is a
helpful tool for quantitative analysis in community health assessment, and
NVivo has been widely used in qualitative data analysis. Yet both continue to
be problematic to many practitioners. You evaluate the benefits and limitations
of data analysis methods including the use of software. Finally, you evaluate
some of the reasons why technology may not be a panacea to all the problems of
manual data analysis but, rather, a source of new challenges.
For this Discussion,
consider this week’s Resources. Think about your personal experiences with data
collection software, even if it was not related to community health assessment,
and think about some of the challenges it posed.
With these thoughts
in mind:
3 By Day
Post your answer to
one of the following:
Explain one benefit and one
limitation for using software-assisted quantitative data analysis in the
preparation of a community health assessment report and justify your
response, or
Explain one benefit and one
limitation for using software-assisted qualitative data analysis in the
preparation of a community health assessment report and justify your
response.
Finally, describe one method
for data analysis for which you would not use software and explain why.
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This week, you
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