Data collectors’ field journals as tools for research

Friedemann, Marie-Luise; Mayorga, Cristobalina; Jiménez, Luz Dary

doi:10.1177/1744987110387319

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“…The participants had an option to keep their entries in a provided folder or they could send their entries via email as Word Documents. The journal of the first author was used for monitoring the progress of the study, improving the quality of data-gathering tools (Friedemann, Mayorga, & Jimenez, 2011) and developing her critical thinking and analytical abilities (Borg, 2001;Jasper, 2005).…”

Section: Methodology and Data Collecting Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sources of self-efficacy of Vietnamese EFL teachers: A qualitative study

Phan

Locke

2015

Teaching and Teacher Education

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Sources of self-efficacy of Vietnamese EFL teachers: A qualitative study

Phan

Locke

2015

Teaching and Teacher Education

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“…(e.g. Friedemann et al ., ) The purpose of the preparatory phase was to make sense of the data and to determine what was happening within the diaries (Elo & Kyngäs, ). The unit of meaning, as a constellation of words or statements relating to the same central theme (Graneheim & Lundman, ), proved to be an appropriate unit of analysis for the diaries.…”

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confidence: 99%

Life orientation in Finnish family caregivers' of persons with Alzheimer's disease: A diary study

Välimäki

Vehviläinen‐Julkunen

Pietilä

et al. 2012

Nursing & Health Sciences

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Family caregivers provide the majority of home care of people with Alzheimer's disease. In this study, we discuss family caregivers' life orientation and changes in life orientation during the first year after the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Family caregivers' unstructured diaries (n = 83), of the first six months after diagnosis (years 2002-2004), were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Two core themes emerged from the data analysis: the meaning of the onset of Alzheimer's disease for the lives of family caregivers, and restructuring life in its entirety. Family caregivers face challenges in their life orientation after the onset of their family members' Alzheimer's disease. Their personal milieu, familial cohesion, and conception of the future consequentially change. They face multiple challenges in the process of becoming caregivers. In this study, it was revealed that the process starts before the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and has an impact on their future. We conclude that family caregivers' well-being should be assessed at the time of the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.

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“…improving the quality of my data-gathering tools (Friedemann, Mayorga, & Jimenez, 2011), and developing my critical thinking and analytical abilities (Borg, 2001;Jasper, 2005…”

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confidence: 99%

Can I teach these students? A case study of Vietnamese teachers’ self-efficacy in relation to teaching English as a Foreign Language

Phan¹

2020

Preprint

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The study looked at factors that influenced the self-efficacy in teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) of a group of university teachers in Vietnam. This study explored the relationship between Vietnamese teachers’ discourses of effective teaching practices and their self-efficacy beliefs, the influence of Vietnamese culture and context on teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs, and whether participating in the research led to a change in the self-efficacy beliefs of the teacher participants and of myself as researcher.The research took the form of a qualitative case study. Participants were eight university teachers of the English language at a technical university in Vietnam. Data collection lasted six months. Data collection tools included focus group discussions, individual interviews, journaling, and observations. An inductive coding process and thematic analysis were used for analysing data. Findings indicate that social persuasion was the most influential source of self-efficacy information. The study shows that different sources of self-efficacy information interacted with one another to influence the two dimensions of self-efficacy. Besides, it appears that teachers’ understanding of a number of environment and workplace factors appeared to constrain some teachers into adopting the Grammar Translation Method (GTM) approach and possibly reduced their self-efficacy in adapting a Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)-oriented approach. After participating in the study, the teaching approaches of study teachers and my own approaches seemed to be more CLT-oriented although most of us were characterised by a low sense of self-efficacy in adapting this approach in the Vietnamese classrooms. Findings also suggest that several aspects of Vietnamese culture, e.g. the concept of face, are likely to have influenced the way the study teachers selected, weighted and interpreted efficacy-building information. In addition, it is plausible that changes in context, e.g. teaching different kinds of students, led to a change in the way the teachers and I weighed and selected self-efficacy information. Self-reflection, self-doubt and self-regulation were other factors causing fluctuations in the study teachers’ and my self-efficacy. My study contributes to a widening understanding of how different aspects of culture can impact on self-efficacy. It provides examples to challenge the claim that the self-efficacy of experienced teachers is stable and the widespread view that a negative sense of self-efficacy induces individuals to give up and make less effort. The study shows the relationship between teacher self-efficacy beliefs and their discourses of EFL instruction, i.e. their self-efficacy in using different aspects of a communicative approach fluctuated at different stages of the study. The study points to the need to improve leadership practice and teaching conditions at the faculty and university. Preparing teachers for regulation strategies, encouraging them to work collectively, and offering more professional development programs are likely to develop a stronger sense of self-efficacy among teachers.

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Data collectors’ field journals as tools for research

Cited by 10 publications

References 49 publications

Sources of self-efficacy of Vietnamese EFL teachers: A qualitative study

Sources of self-efficacy of Vietnamese EFL teachers: A qualitative study

Life orientation in Finnish family caregivers' of persons with Alzheimer's disease: A diary study

Can I teach these students? A case study of Vietnamese teachers’ self-efficacy in relation to teaching English as a Foreign Language

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