COMP 3008 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Critical Incident Technique, Qualitative Research, Inter-Rater Reliability
26 Oct 2018
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Comp 3008 chapter 8: as with quantitative analysis, the first step in qualitative analysis is to gain an overall impression of the data and to start looking for patterns. Important to confirm and re-confirm findings to make sure that initial impressions are not biasing analysis: three simple types of qualitative analysis, these are not mutually exclusive and can be used in combination, 1. ) Identifying recurring patterns and themes: sometimes the refined patterns or themes form the primary set of findings for the analysis and sometimes they are just the starting point for different analyses, 2. ) This approach continues until no new insights emerge and the theory is well-developed: coding category identification and definition. Three aspects, which are iteratively performed through the cycle of data collection and analysis: 1. Open coding is the process through which categories, their properties, and dimensions are discovered in the data: 2.
