Exam 16: Qualitative Data Analysis

Codes are labels given to units of text which are later grouped and turned into categories.

Qualitative research may involve repeated sampling,collection of data,and analysis of data.

Conceptual analysis establishes the existence and frequency of concepts (such as words,themes,or characters)in a text.

Qualitative data are data in the form of words.

Codes and categories can only be developed deductively.

The purpose of coding is to help you to draw meaningful conclusions about the data.

Data reduction refers to ways of presenting the data.

Coding is the process of organizing,arranging,and classifying coding units.

Data reduction refers to the process of selecting,coding,and categorizing the data.

Analytic induction is an approach to qualitative data analysis in which universal explanations of phenomena are sought by the collection of (qualitative)data until no cases that are inconsistent with a hypothetical explanation of a phenomenon are found.

Examples of coding units include words,sentences,paragraphs,and themes.

Relational analysis is an approach that aims to elicit and scrutinize the stories we tell about ourselves and their implications for our lives.

Interjudge reliability depends on the analyst's ability to formulate categories and present to competent judges definitions of the categories so they will agree on which items of a certain population belong in a category and which do not.

Conceptual analysis is an observational research method that is used to systematically evaluate the symbolic contents of all forms of recorded communications.

Conclusion drawing and verification is the analytic process through which the qualitative data that you have gathered are reduced,rearranged,and integrated to form theory.