Explain how researchers use inductive content analysis (thematic analysis) on interview transcripts
Definitions
One method for inductive content analysis: interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA)
Different stages of IPA
Grigoriou (2004) Relate to a study
- Induction is an approach where important themes emerge from data analysis of interview transcripts.
- Fairly precise guidelines as to how the data should be analyzed
- very different goals from data analysis in quantitative studies
- Less standardized and more inductive
- think about emerging patterns and repeating ideas
- aims to create good generalizations about a person’s or a group’s experience
- They organize them into categories - coding = act of categorizing based on themes
One method for inductive content analysis: interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA)
- it is a researcher’s interpretation of someone’s experiences of a phenomenon.
- Requires assumptions to be made and concerns the participants’ subjective reality
- People can have different subjective experiences about the same objective reality because all reality is filtered through each person’s unique beliefs and expectations
Different stages of IPA
- Read and reflect. Form first impressions
- Naming the themes and give them labels
- Create structure to the themes created - organization
- Summary of the theme with supporting quotations
Grigoriou (2004) Relate to a study
- Examined close relationships between gay men and heterosexual women
- IPA was used because it was considered to be the most appropriate way to gain an insight into the individual participant’s own understanding of his/her friendship.
- Looking into everyone’s different “subjective reality”; purpose of qualitative research
- Step 2: looking for themes (Defining the friendship between gay men and heterosexual women/ friends as family etc)
- Step 3: looking for subthemes (openness, trust, social support, having fun)
Explain how a case study could be used to investigate a problem in an organization or group
Identify the group
young students in Danish Schools
Identify the problem
Students dropping out before high school
Some don’t finish their exams
What is the aim?
Explore psychological and social processes that prevent children from learning and to find ways to promote student self-efficacy
What is the design?
single case explanatory case study
Data collection done by participant observation, semi-structured interviews, focus groups and student writings.
How would you conduct field research?
working as a co-teacher for a year, establishing rapport with students, and to get a first impression of the students, the teacher and the interaction between them.
Where would you conduct field research?
Natural settings - places where student-teacher interactions take place
Data Analysis
Ongoing process
Observations fuel the questions for the interview
Comparison of interviews at different points of the case study
Data can be used to generate theories/ analyze against existing theories.
young students in Danish Schools
Identify the problem
Students dropping out before high school
Some don’t finish their exams
What is the aim?
Explore psychological and social processes that prevent children from learning and to find ways to promote student self-efficacy
What is the design?
single case explanatory case study
Data collection done by participant observation, semi-structured interviews, focus groups and student writings.
How would you conduct field research?
working as a co-teacher for a year, establishing rapport with students, and to get a first impression of the students, the teacher and the interaction between them.
Where would you conduct field research?
Natural settings - places where student-teacher interactions take place
Data Analysis
Ongoing process
Observations fuel the questions for the interview
Comparison of interviews at different points of the case study
Data can be used to generate theories/ analyze against existing theories.