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I want to measure the impacts of my initiative on science and technology
…by assessing its impact on community participation in research

Aggregate indicator title

Community participation in research 

Description

Measures of community partners involvement in research process

Domain

Science & Technology

Qualitative/Quantitative

Quantitative & Qualitative

Primary/Secondary data

Primary and Secondary data

Source of data

Primary: Project coordinator and partners

Secondary: Online repositories (e.g. Science Direct, Google Scholar, etc.)

Time series

No

Unit of measurement (observation)

Absolute values & nominal 

Unit of analysis

Project

Analytical level (logic model)

Process

Links with indicators in other domains

Society

Data collection method(s)

Semi structured interviews with Principle investigators of projects; survey with academic and community partners working on projects; review of literature on community-academic partnerships

Data collection item(s)

In which specific research activities (and to what extent) community partner were involved?

  • Grant proposal writing
  • Background research
  • Choosing research methods
  • Developing sampling procedures
  • Recruiting study participants
  • Implementing the intervention
  • Designing interview and/or survey questions
  • Collecting primary data
  • Analyzing collected data
  • Interpreting study findings
  • Writing reports and journal articles
  • Giving presentations at meetings and conferences
Indicator building
  • Specific research activities that community partners participated in
  • The extent to which the community partners participated in the research components (scale between 0 and 12)
Availability of data

Low

Feasibility

Moderately resource demanding

Comments/caveats
Source of indicator definition

Khodyakov et al. (2013