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Skillset Self-Assessment

Your Qualitative Skillset

Schuh, Biddix, Dean & Kinzie identify elements of a "Qualitative Skillset" that they believe "assessment practitioners should work to develop and maintain." Please indicate your confidence for each of the skills they identify as part of the skillset (p. 167).
1. Fundamental understanding of the qualitative (that is, constructivist) perspective.
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2. Awareness of how identities, experiences, and biases can inform and influence data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
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3. Ability to negotiate access to sites and to build an authentic rapport with participants. 
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4. Basic skills, building toward intermediate proficiencies, in interviewing, note-taking, and observation.
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5. Ability to code data and to identify emergency themes across multiple data sources.
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