CORE--FIELD WORK TRAINING AND QUALITATIVE DATA

社会行为研究小组在培训方面已经在全国享有盛誉 民族志领域的研究人员与成人和儿童一起工作， 行为和情绪问题，沿着他们的家人和工作的专业人员 与这些人口。该小组还因其在整合方面的创新工作而得到广泛认可。 实地研究与其他分析方法，如测试，实地观察，评级， 问卷数据和调查方法。其整合定性和定量数据的能力 在一个单一的研究设计是一个独特的优势。尽管越来越多的研究人员 来欣赏定性数据的价值，收集和分析这些数据的方法， 材料特别难以整合，因为它们需要培训和学徒 比大多数方法所要求的更长时间的体验。民族笔记 基于FileMaker Pro的定性数据管理和分析系统及其应用 与定量数据的整合继续扩大。这项工作提高了 为多个MRRC项目和其他研究进行数据处理和分析。 该中心支持关注族裔和移民家庭和社区问题的工作 已被确定为关键的研究，政策和干预优先事项， NICHD在21世纪的MR/DD领域。迫切需要解决这些问题。 因此，实地工作培训和定性数据核心非常有能力继续下去， 对不同种族的家庭及其子女进行研究， 不应忽视当前和未来的福祉。

The Sociobehavioral Research Group has developed a national reputation for training ethnographic field researchers working with adults and children with various cognitive, behavioral and emotional problems, along with their families and the professionals who work with these populations. The Group is also widely recognized for its innovative work in integrating fieldwork studies with other analytical methods such as tests, field observations, ratings, questionnaire data, and survey methods. Its ability to integrate qualitative and quantitative data within a single research design is a unique strength. Although more and more investigators are coming to appreciate the value of qualitative data, the means of collecting and analyzing these materials are particularly difficult to integrate, because they require training and apprenticeship experiences that are more prolonged than those called for by most methods. The EthnoNotes FileMaker Pro based system for the management and analysis of qualitative data and its integration with quantitative data continues to expand. This work has enhanced the efficiency of data processing and analysis for a number of MRRC projects and other studies. The Core supports work that focuses on ethnic and immigrant family and community issues which have been identified as among the key research, policy, and intervention priorities for NICHD in the MR/DD field in the 21st century. The need to address these issues is pressing. Thus, the Fieldwork Training and Qualitative Data Core is unusually well positioned to continue to conduct research with ethnically diverse families and their children in populations whose present and future well-being should not be neglected.