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Discussion 1: Coding Scholar of Change of Video # 3 (John Anner)
1. Brief Description of the Video
The scholar of change video (program transcript) was presented by John Anner, a PhD candidate in Public Policy Administration (with concentration on International Non-governmental Organizations. - Walden University. Over the years, Anner have been focusing on agricultural problems in Africa and the Caribbean, and later joined the Peace Corps, where he worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in agriculture in Mauritania and West Africa. Anner has been a practitioner for almost 30 years and quest to acquire a PhD is to enable him add some intellectual and academic rigor to his work. He hope to bring to bear, his knowledge, experience and understanding to build national policy networks targeted at addressing directed social problems.
2. Coding the Scholar Change
A code in qualitative inquiry is most often a word or a short phrase that symbolically assigns a summative, a summary, a salient or essence-capturing attribute, for some portion of language, or visual data (Saldana, 2016). My coding preference will be the use of the Excel spreadsheet with the labelling of the columns to include; the video code number (under this, I'll have my notes), the name of the student, gender, program of study, subject matter/topic, what happened in the video (under this I'll have my transcript which will capture my report content), quick memo.
To demonstrate the first coding, for instance, I'll have the following; under the column for video code number (I'll have video #3), the column for the name of the student (I'll have John Anner), under gender column (male), program of study (PhD in Public Policy Administration), subject matter/topic (scholar of change), under the transcript (I'll have focused his attention on agricultural problems in Africa and the Caribbean, and later joined the Peace Corps, and worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in agriculture in Mauritania, West Africa; a practitioner for almost 30 years; his quest to acquire a PhD is to enable him add some intellectual and academic rigor to his work).
3. Explaining My Choice of Coding
Another attractive aspect of this qualitative coding system is the insertion of a column for memos. "Memos are a very important part of qualitative data analysis process because they offer a great platform to put very short notes which can be expanded and placed in in the researcher's analytic memo notebook" (Laureate Education - Producer, 2016). Again at periods of data analysis and reflections, a memo will enable the interviewer to know what part of the text (or the questionnaire) the information came from and what the interviewer was thinking about at that period in time.
References
Anner, J. (2015). John Anner, PhD student in public policy and administration [Video file].
Laureate Education (Producer). (2016). Introduction to coding [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Laureate Education (Producer). (2016). From content to coding [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Saldaña, J. (2016). The coding manual for qualitative researchers (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.