Poster #8 - The Kids Are Alright: Eliciting Feedback in the Mixed-Methods Research Process

• In Event: 63.088 - MTCC Poster Session 14
  In Poster Session: 63.088-2 - Procedural Issues in the Mixed-Methods Research Process

Abstract

This paper highlights data-influenced examples from a recent mixed-methods study for eliciting youth participant feedback, allowing participants to become co-constructors of knowledge. Adolescents in the example study essentially described social capital in their own terms while explaining the importance of friendships in their school lives. They helped the researcher interpret and validate findings, and they co-created recommendations for policy and further research (longitudinal and comparative case studies). The study revealed how capable middle schoolers are in doing studies with researchers rather than being studied by researchers, and the importance of doing so if we are truly committed to liberation paradigms (Feagin, Vera, & Ducey, 2015) and democratization of evidence.

Author

• Alison Michelle Black, University of California - San Diego