Resources
The following resources will help you learn more about QE.
Suggested Readings
This book is an introduction into the field of Quantitative Ethnography and covers, among others:
- Integration of quantitative and qualitative research methods
- Taxonomy of observations (thick and thin descriptions)
- Issues related to data collection, coding, segmentation and modeling
- The rationale behind Epistemic Network Analysis
This paper outlines 10 steps in the iterative QE modeling pathway and 5 main practices in a QE analysis.
This paper is an example of a QE analysis of middle school STEM learning.
This paper offers an overview of qualitative coding in a QE framework.
This paper provides an example of the benefits of conducting a QE analysis on data from a previous qualitative or ethnographic study.
This article demonstrates the benefits of using ENA compared to more traditional methods of assessing learning.
The QE Zotero Library
The QE Zotero library (https://bit.ly/3MBZdTV) provides a comprehensive bibilography of publications that use QE methods or practices.
Acknowledgments
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This work was funded in part by the National Science Foundation (DRL-2225240) and supported by the Quantitative Ethnography Fellows Institute at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. The opinions, findings, and conclusions do not reflect the views of the funding agencies, cooperating institutions, or other individuals.