The PIDLit Lab Directors are experienced teachers of credit-bearing courses and have both pedagogical training and qualitative and quantitative data analysis training. The PIDLit Lab is a culmination of our team's passions and expertise, as a student and community focused project that highlights the benefits of PIT in addressing social problems and public health.
The Year 2023 PIDLit initiative was funded by the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) Challenge Fund.
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Mini-Methods Talk + In-Class Exercise by Dr. Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh
To prepare students for analyzing Wholesome Wave Georgia’s Food For Health program evaluation data (focus group interviews) and the open-ended questions data from our two food insecurity surveys, the PIDLit course instructors included a curricular unit (one class session = 2.5 hours) devoted to introducing qualitative research and analytical coding, including an in-class exercise on coding an interview transcript.
"PIDLit goes ‘Qual’ In! An Overview of Qualitative Research Methods" © 2024 by Dr. Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0