Assignment:
Coding and Theme Analysis
For this Discussion Question, please be sure to visit the Application 2 area before completing this Discussion.
For this Discussion, you will attach the final coding and theme analysis you completed from this week's Application 2 assignment (last page of the document). Once attached, your faculty and peers will have the chance to comment on them.
Application 2: Coding of the Interview and Theme Analysis
In Chapter 8 of your Creswell text, you learn about the core elements of qualitative data analysis. Coding the data is the first step. In this process, you reduce the data gathered into segments, assigning names as you go along. Your assignment for this week is to code your interview transcript to find themes. Be sure to consider your research question as you begin to code.
Your assignment should contain the following elements:
1. Your research question for this interview
2. A list of the codes you developed for your interview transcript
3. A description of your thinking or working process, explaining how you developed your codes, including any evolution of your coding system
Keep in mind that this coding exercise will also form the basis for a later Application in which you will write up your results or findings from your interview.
Your assignment should contain the following elements:
1. Your research question for this interview
2. A list of the codes you developed for your interview transcript
3. A description of your thinking or working process, explaining how you developed your codes, including any evolution of your coding system
4. In-text coding for your interview. This means that you are to select chunks of data and apply the codes to your interview transcript. Keep your interview transcript intact as a whole and show where you have applied the codes to the text des, including any evolution of your coding system
4. In-text coding for your interview. This means that you are to select chunks of data and apply the codes to your interview transcript. Keep your interview transcript intact as a whole and show where you have applied the codes to the text.