CORE--FIELD WORK TRAINING AND QUALITATIVE DATA

社会行为研究小组在培训方面建立了全国声誉 人种学领域的研究人员与成人和儿童一起工作， 行为和情绪问题，以及他们的家人和工作人员 在这些种群中。该小组还因其在融合方面的创新工作而受到广泛认可 使用其他分析方法进行的实地研究，如测试、现场观察、评级、 问卷调查数据和调查方法。其整合定性和定量数据的能力 在单一的研究设计中，是一种独特的优势。尽管越来越多的调查人员 逐渐认识到定性数据的价值，收集和分析这些数据的方法 材料特别难整合，因为它们需要培训和学徒 比大多数方法所要求的更持久的经验。民族笔记 基于FileMaker Pro的定性数据管理与分析系统及其实现 与量化数据的整合继续扩大。这项工作提高了工作效率 为多个MRRC项目和其他研究项目进行数据处理和分析。 核心支持侧重于族裔和移民家庭和社区问题的工作 已被确定为以下方面的关键研究、政策和干预优先事项 21世纪MR/DD领域的NICHD。解决这些问题的必要性迫在眉睫。 因此，实地工作培训和质量数据核心处于非常有利的地位，可以继续下去 对不同种族的家庭及其子女进行研究，这些家庭的人口 现在和未来的福祉不应被忽视。

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.