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Analyzing Life

7/22/2019

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For my research friends, I'd like to introduce a book that clearly describes the processes involved in analyzing qualitative data. My dissertation chairperson suggested the book: Qualitative research: Analyzing life, Saldaña, J., & Omasta, M. (2017).

As I analyze my research interviews exploring experiential learning at an Asian campus of a large American university, I am finding this new book to be a rich source of guidance. In the past, I have pulled my research method references from several authors, including Saldaña​'s The coding manual for qualitative researchers, and also including Becoming Qualitative Researchers by Glesne (2011), and Interviewing as qualitative research: a guide for researchers in education and the social sciences, by Seidman (2013).

The new Saldaña, J., & Omasta, M. (2017) book is designed as a college qualitative research textbook. It is easy to follow and combines the methods that I have studied elsewhere into one book. For my dissertation, I will mostly refer to this text when I describe my analytic methods, if only to simplify the references. This is worth purchasing (or borrowing from the library) if you are doing any sort of qualitative study.

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References
Glesne, C. (2011). Becoming qualitative researchers: An introduction (5th ed.): Pearson.
​Saldaña, J. (2015). The coding manual for qualitative researchers (Third ed.): Sage.
Saldaña, J., & Omasta, M. (2017). Qualitative research: Analyzing life: Sage Publications.
Seidman, I. (2013). Interviewing as qualitative research: a guide for researchers in education and the social sciences (4th ed.). New York: Teachers College Press.
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QUALITATIVE RESEARCH INTERVIEW ANALYSIS

7/13/2019

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​For my education and geekier friends . . . 
My analysis of experiential learning interview data from the campus of a large American university in Asia is underway. I've moved all transcripts into Excel for coding. Contact me if you are interested in this process, as it provides a useful method to code, and then to sort and export the data for the next stages of analysis.

The table below shows the categories of interview participants. I may trim a few, but at this time, I'll have 19 first interviews and 19 second interviews. I'd be happy to share information about the two-stage process I used for the interviews . . . or you could read the dissertation when it is published. ;-)

My current activities involve completing the initial coding process. The interviews contain wonderful insights from students, instructors, and administrators. Now my task is to make sense of the data (e.g., see Coffee & Atkinson, 1966) with initial codes. Then I will be looking for categories that group common codes, and finally, for themes.
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​Reference

Coffey, A., & Atkinson, P. (1996). Making sense of qualitative data: Complementary research strategies. Thousand Oaks, CA, US: Sage Publications, Inc.
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