Craft a n “observation recording instrument”. A pair of examples may help you get the idea, before you begin.
Many are allied healthcare providers. EMT’s and Paramedics, as an example. You typically had to go through demonstration of competency laboratories. The examiner has a ‘skill sheet’ with critical behaviors listed, and often a step by step guide to the specific procedure. Miss a critical step and you would be referred to remediation; miss a minor technique point, and the examiner could record that or give ‘critique’ when you finished.
In hospital settings and EMS, a similar experience in ‘disaster’ was the donning and doffing procedure for Ebola (or other Viral Hemmorhagic Fever) Personal Protective Equipment, and the “Designated Observer” who would read out the steps, and record the successful completion. The ‘record sheet’ listed the critical observations necessary to complete the task.
Using these models, a check sheet of desired behaviors can be crafter. Perhaps a short observation is used to determine the ‘meaningful’ behaviors of the population that interest the Principal Investigator relating to their hypothesis, or to describe the population (grounded research).
After you craft your ‘instrument’ (check sheet, for example), how would you TRAIN your observers to use your instrument? Do you also want them to list interesting, recurring behaviors you have not yet focused on?
Finally, when the instruments are returned, how to you ‘code’ the ‘qualitative data’?
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