To assure the evidence-based strategy used by the Club remained effective at addressing gaps in health information in the API community, the Club used unobtrusive measures to monitor its impact.
Unobtrusive measures first were described by Webb, Campbell, Schwartz, and Sechrest (1966, 2000), and their work remains the classic in this field.
Such
unobtrusive measures may be much more meaningful than memory tests for studying MCI behaviors and perhaps responses to potential therapies.
This research textbook for sociology students covers the fundamentals of survey research, participant observation, life histories and
unobtrusive measures while highlighting the focus on "capturing reality" that is unique to this discipline.
These are the leading performance indicators, the
unobtrusive measures of performance, collateral expressions of performance.
After that, you could skip around, focusing on chapters related to the type of research you are interested in: experimental research design, surveys, case studies, evaluations, developing questionnaires, interviewing, observing, gathering
unobtrusive measures (that is, using archival data as source material), and so on.
Just as there are few
unobtrusive measures in the social sciences, there are no
unobtrusive measures of performance in public management.
First, you might look to what are called "
unobtrusive measures" for evidence that can be revealing about both goals and expectations.
As etiquette books were never written for sociologists or social researchers, they are necessarily '
unobtrusive measures'.
In this issue, Tat and colleagues (2017) conducted a study about cancer education services in a community-based health promotion program using
unobtrusive measures. As explained,
unobtrusive measures are based on observing rather than gathering information directly from participants.
They share their personal challenges in this regard in introducing 17 chapters charting such methodological paths as narrative inquiry, grounded theory,
unobtrusive measures, and focus groups.
After introducing the theories and methods of criminal justice research, describing qualitative and quantitative studies, and giving students a preview of the specialized terms and processes used throughout the text, he describes ethical considerations, research design, data-gathering strategies, sampling and survey research, participant observation,
unobtrusive measures, secondary analysis, and use of official statistics.