Tracking transition: Issues in asynchronous e-mail interviewing

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Houston, Muir ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning (CRLL)

^c HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data quality; e mail interviewing; Employment; Students; Tracking; Transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949234590     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14385627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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