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Understanding College Students’ Thought Toward Social Events by Qualitative Meta-Synthesis Technologies

Understanding College Students’ Thought Toward Social Events by Qualitative Meta-Synthesis Technologies

Xijin Tang, Bin Luo
Copyright: © 2011 |Volume: 2 |Issue: 4 |Pages: 16
ISSN: 1947-9344|EISSN: 1947-9352|EISBN13: 9781613508824|DOI: 10.4018/ijoci.2011100102
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Tang, Xijin, and Bin Luo. "Understanding College Students’ Thought Toward Social Events by Qualitative Meta-Synthesis Technologies." IJOCI vol.2, no.4 2011: pp.15-30. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijoci.2011100102

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Tang, X. & Luo, B. (2011). Understanding College Students’ Thought Toward Social Events by Qualitative Meta-Synthesis Technologies. International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI), 2(4), 15-30. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijoci.2011100102

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Tang, Xijin, and Bin Luo. "Understanding College Students’ Thought Toward Social Events by Qualitative Meta-Synthesis Technologies," International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI) 2, no.4: 15-30. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijoci.2011100102

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Abstract

It is necessary to consider community opinions about social events and respond with proper actions. Support is needed to acquire a basic or rough idea of community opinions quickly. In this paper, the authors show how to elicit main points from community opinions with a simple word association test on college students about the highlighted social events in China in 2010. Two supporting technologies for qualitative meta-synthesis CorMap and iView are applied to analyze the opinions. Unlike basic descriptive statistical figures, CorMap/iView help identify the structures of opinions, which show the primary concerns of students or features of events, as a simple way to acquire a rough synthesis of public concerns rapidly.

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