ABSTRACT Third parties during interviews albeit a common occurrence, it is not widely studied. Literature in this topic is limited and mostly old. As a primary requirement, interviewers are asked to ensure privacy during ...

There are few studies on migration for educational purposes, both in Turkey and around the world. However, as a result of globalization and shortening of distances, the movement of migration for educational purposes increased ...

Focus group discussion is one of the commonly used qualitative research methods. In focus group discussions it is argued that having homogenous participants in terms of social characteristics like gender, race, age etc. ...

Qualitative content analysis has started to be used more in the recent years, especially in the last decade. This trend exists in Turkey as well. It can be said the method was founded in 1952 by Berelson, when his book ...

Mixed methods came to light as the third methodological movement besides the quantitative and qualitative methods. It has been significantly popular for researchers, particularly in the last twenty years. However, its ...

Although there are studies on the comparison of mail and web survey modes on different populations in terms of data quality indicators in the literature, it is seen that there are very few studies on comparing these two ...

In the world’s real state of nature, people are forcefully evicted from their homes every other time either because they are targets of their state’s persecutions or their state’s failure to protect them from violent ...

The main purpose of using different data collection methods is to collect the best quality data by taking into consideration the budgetary constraints; has been produce. In the literature, although there are a lot of studies ...

Sample surveys are widely used methods to collect data all over the world and they have been widely conducted on the issues of population growth, demography and health since the last century. Within this framework, the ...

The experiences and the processes of researchers is one of the most fruitful ways to understand the approaches and methods of qualitative research and embody the theoretical aspects of any methodology. This thesis aims to ...