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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.

#qualitativeresearch #qualitativedataanalysis #dataanalysis #
Saldaña #Omasta #experientiallearning

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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Student Linquistic abilities

6/30/2019

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I am analyzing the interview data I collected from students for my PhD dissertation. Many of these students are amazing, especially in their linguistic abilities.

I'll let this excerpt from the transcript of one interview with a female student speak for itself. The student's name below is a pseudonym.
  • Paul: Okay. Uhm how many languages do you speak?
  • Mary: Four.
  • Paul: What are they?
  • Mary: Portuguese, Japanese, English and Spanish.
  • Paul: Wow!
  • Mary: Hmm.
  • Paul: That’s pretty impressive.
  • Mary: No, I wish I could be fluent in all of them. English and Spanish are the most challenging.
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​I should add that the student's English during two long interviews was flawless.

#smartstudents

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Excel & Word for qualitative data analysis

6/16/2019

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I have continued to experiment with the use of MS Excel and Word to analyze qualitative date -- in this case, interview data for my PhD dissertation. The method described by Ose (2016) is amazing, although it has a few disadvantages.

Disadvantages include having online one major code for each interviewee quote. In my spreadsheet, I have an additional column for a secondary code, but I do not include that column when going through Ose's (2016) steps to convert the Excel file for Word. I use the added column as a reference as I work with the Word file during my secondary coding, categorizing, and creation of themes.

If you use her method as described in her paper, you will need to enlarge the Figure 10 and 11 screen shots. The concatenation instructions are complex, but trust what she writes, and pay special attention to the following on page 9:
F1 cell: =CONCATENATE(D1;"(";A1;"_";B1;"_";C1;")")
The "_" underscore symbols represent spaces, not use of the symbol, and in my instance of Excel, the semicolons were commas when I used the Function feature to create this string.

This is what the formula looks like in my file: 
=CONCATENATE(D1,"(",A1," ",B1," ",C1,")")

The screen shot below is Ose's (2016) Figure 6 image on page 9. Keep in  mind that there are additional "Text" boxes that aren't visible in this image.

Reference
Ose, S. O. (2016). Using Excel and Word to Structure Qualitative Data. Journal of Applied Social Science, 10(2), 147–162. https://doi.org/10.1177/1936724416664948


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