A Brief Overview of a Q Methodological Exploration
Proposal Track
Research Project
Session Format
Presentation
Abstract
Community engagement in higher education has seemingly contributed to the growth in the number of staff employed as community engagement professionals focused on coordinating community-campus engagement. The increasing number of community engagement professionals in higher education has led to the development of competency frameworks to outline the skills and knowledge needed by community engagement professionals to coordinate community-campus engagement activities. This preliminary research focuses on a selected community engagement professionals’ competency framework as viewed through the lenses of select higher education community engagement professionals in the United States. This preliminary research study implements Q methodology, a research method for analyzing subjectivity. This presentation will provide an overview of the use of Q methodology for the preliminary research as a basis to outline the process of data collection.
Keywords
Community Engagement, Higher Education, Community Engagement Professionals’ Competency Framework, Q Methodology, Q Sort
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Recommended Citation
Lyon, Melissa L. and Moffett, Noran L., "A Brief Overview of a Q Methodological Exploration" (2018). Georgia Educational Research Association Conference. 38.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gera/2018/2018/38
A Brief Overview of a Q Methodological Exploration
Community engagement in higher education has seemingly contributed to the growth in the number of staff employed as community engagement professionals focused on coordinating community-campus engagement. The increasing number of community engagement professionals in higher education has led to the development of competency frameworks to outline the skills and knowledge needed by community engagement professionals to coordinate community-campus engagement activities. This preliminary research focuses on a selected community engagement professionals’ competency framework as viewed through the lenses of select higher education community engagement professionals in the United States. This preliminary research study implements Q methodology, a research method for analyzing subjectivity. This presentation will provide an overview of the use of Q methodology for the preliminary research as a basis to outline the process of data collection.
