Pilot-tested field notes
Pilot-tested field notes combine the classical ethnographic practice of systematic observational recording with a deliberate pre-validation phase. Before the main data collection begins, the researcher conducts one or more trial observation sessions to test and refine the note-taking protocol — assessing categories, focus areas, and recording conventions — so that the main fieldwork captures relevant data consistently and completely.
Source record
Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.
- Emerson, R. M., Fretz, R. I., & Shaw, L. L. (2011). Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (2nd ed.). University of Chicago Press. · ISBN 978-0226206837
- Van Maanen, J. (2011). Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography (2nd ed.). University of Chicago Press. · ISBN 978-0226849645
Curated claims
Claims persisted in the evidence ledger, each with its own assessment.
This view does not invent a claim assessment when the ledger has none.
Related methods
Generated from the method graph and shown as machine-suggested relations — no evidence claim is inferred.