Rapid Ethnographic Assessment
Rapid ethnographic assessment — also called the Rapid Assessment Process — is intensive, team-based qualitative inquiry that uses triangulation, iterative data analysis, and additional rounds of data collection to quickly develop a preliminary understanding of a situation from the insiders' point of view. Formalized by James Beebe, it compresses the logic of long-term ethnography into days or weeks for applied settings where decisions cannot wait for a year of fieldwork.
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- Beebe, J. (2001). Rapid Assessment Process: An Introduction. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. · ISBN 9780759100114
Curated claims
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Related methods
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