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Cons (Data Extraction)

1. An attempt to reduce a complex, messy, context laden and quantification-resistant reality to a matrix of categories and numbers 2. Time consuming 3. Often difficult

How to extract data?

1. Examine your findings with a pre-defined framework - Reflects your aims, objectives and interests - Relatively easy and is closely aligned in the research 2. Thematic network analysis A more explanatory perspective

Steps (Data Analysis)

1. Get to know your data 2. Focus the analysis 3. Review the purpose and go back to the research question 4. Identify themes or patterns 5. Ask team mates to analyze 6. Organize collected data in Tabular form/Identify patterns within and among categories

Steps (Data Analysis)

1. Get to know your data 2. Focus the analysis 3. Review the purpose and go back to the research question - always go back to the purpose of your study and your research questions. Identify themes or patterns - use codes or labels, such as the one in the example given, during this process. Identify themes and patterns. Ask team mates to analyze Organize collected data in Tabular form/Identify patterns within and among categories - categorize patterns and themes that you have identified in your data

Creswell (Data Analysis)

1. Organize and prepare the data for analysis 2. Read through all the data. Gain a general sense of the information and reflect on the overall meaning 3. Conduct analysis based on the specific theoretical analysis 4. Generate a description on the setting or people and identify themes from the coding 5. Represent the data within a research report

Parts of Chapter IV

1. Purpose of the Study 2. Research Design 3. Limitations 4. Summary of Findings 5. Conclusion 6. Recommendations

Purpose (Data Extraction)

1. To extract data honestly and consistently as a precursor to the interpretative phase 2. Not to prejudge the value or meaning of data as it is extracted 3. Articles are in different formats and use different styles of reporting

Data Extraction

A process used to extract and validate data from an operational database and external data source. Describe the studies in general, to extract the findings from each study in a consistent manner to enable later synthesis.

Data collection

Codes - Basic Themes - Organizing Themes - Global Theme

Emergent Codes

Ideas, concepts, actions and meanings that come up from reading and analyzing the data

Coding

Process of analyzing the data and searching for essential information that answers the research questions. (e.g. assigning a phrase, word, number, in any category.)

Data Analysis

The process of compiling, analyzing, and interpreting the results of primary and secondary data collection.

Interview Protocol

The list of questions prepared for the interview that have been designed to ensure that the interview process is equally reliable and valid for all candidates.

Works Cited

a complete listing of references cited parenthetically in the report and keyed on a separate page. (APA)

Narrative Analysis

a form of qualitative analysis in which the analyst focuses on how respondents impose order on the flow of experience in their lives and so make sense of events and actions in which they have participated

Consent Form

a model text that should be modified to meet specific needs of a particular study

List of Figures

a reference tool that allows your readers to quickly and easily navigate to data in your thesis or dissertation

Review the purpose and go back to the research question

always go back to the purpose of your study and your research questions

Recommendations

are the outcomes of extensive interaction with participants and reflections of the researcher

Organize collected data in Tabular form

categorize patterns and themes that you have identified in your data

Pre-set Codes

codes that are created in advance

Appendices

contains supplementary material that is not an essential part of the text itself but which may be helpful in providing a more comprehensive understanding of the research problem

Themes

features of participants' accounts characterizing particular perceptions and/or experiences that the researcher sees as relevant to the research question.

Purpose of the Study

illustrates what the study aims or will do, which should reflect the statement of the problem.

Conclusions

intended to help the reader understand why your research should matter to them after they have finished reading the paper

Table of Contents

organized listing of the chapters and major sections of your document.

Acknowledgement

page focused on expressing gratitude to organizations, agencies or individuals who, in one way or another, have aided the researchers in finishing the thesis

Codes

phrases or sentences and coming up with shorthand labels or "codes" to describe each content

Summary of Findings

present data clearly and concisely, highlighting patterns or significant results

Interview Transcripts with Code

process of labeling relevant words, phrases, sentences, or sections with codes

Get to know your data

read your data very well and have a good grasp of the meaning that each statement tries to convey

Limitations

restrictions; starts with a brief purpose of the study and listings of all limitations.

Abstract

s a short summary of your completed research. should be self-contained and concise, explaining your work as briefly and clearly as possible.

Research Design

specifies which research questions must be answered, how and when the data will be gathered, and how the data will be analyzed

Approval Sheet

to prove that the authors have passed the requirements needed for the thesis

Identify themes or patterns

use codes or labels, such as the one in the example given, during this process.

Focus the analysis

your participants might be giving pieces of information that are not related to significant to your present study