Qualitative Research Methods: Computerized Data Analysis

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Qualitative Research Methods Computerized Data
Analysis

• Gulzat Botoeva
• RS, Sociology Department
• American University of Central Asia

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The place of this course in the Curriculum

• This is 200 level course which is taught at the
  first semester
• We have Quantitative Research Methods course
  which follows this one in the spring semester,
  SPSS and statistical analysis course in the fall
  of the 3rd year

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In this course, students will develop the skills
needed to

• design and conduct a qualitative study
• develop ability to interpret research findings
• coherently describe conclusions in written and
  oral forms.

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Bibliography

• Denzin, Handbook of Qualitative Research, (3rd
  ed.) London Sage Publications, pp. 139-164
• Sanghera B. (2003) Reader. Sociological
  Analysis Theory and Method II, Almaty CARC
• Booth W. C., Colomb G.G. and Williams J.M. (2003)
  The Craft of Research, Chicago The University of
  Chicago Press pp. 40-107
• Bauer (2000) Qualitative Researching With text,
  Image and Sound, London Sage Publications, pp.
  93-107

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Bibliography

• Bernard H.R. (2000) Social Research Methods,
  Thousand Oaks Sage Publications, pp. 437-471
• Neuman W.L. (1997) Social Research methods
  Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches, Boston
  Allyn and Bacon, pp. 88-105, 201-225
• Berg B.L. (2001) Qualitative Research Methods
  For Social Sciences, Boston Allyn and Bacon, pp.
  66-107

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Course content

• Introduction
• Ethics Protecting Human Subjects and Research
  Integrity
• Philosophy of Social Research Qualitative and
  Quantitative Approaches
• The Problem the Heart of the Research Process
• The Review of the Related Literature
• Conceptualization
• Sampling
• Data Collection Interviewing, Ethnography,
  Visual Methods
• Case Study
• Analytical Frames in Qualitative Research
• Computerized Qualitative Data Processing

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Homework assignments (1-2)

• Assignment 1. Due on Tuesday, September 5th
• Answer the following questions about film made by
  Peter Lom
• 1. What are some ethical concerns to consider
  regarding the way the film was made?
• 2. If you were the researcher, how might you
  justify conducting a covert project of this sort?
• Assignment 2. Due on Thursday, September 21st
• 1. Write out your research question in one
  sentence, and elaborate on it in one paragraph.
  List three reasons why it is a good research
  question for you to investigate.
• 2. Find at least 3 academic articles related to
  your research project. Summarize each of the
  articles and demonstrate the relevance of the
  articles to your research questions.

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Homework assignments

• Assignment 3. Due on Thursday, October 12th
• 1. Prepare interview guide including good
  introduction to the interviewee. The interview
  guide should cover the research questions
  indicated in the assignment 2. Identify
  essential, extra, probing and thraw-away
  questions.
• 2. Select the method of interviewing individual,
  group or combination of the two.
• 3. Design a strategy for the selection of
  respondents.
• Assignment 4. Due on Thursday, October 26th
• Submit the reflection on your interview. What
  problems (getting consent, establishing rapport
  with an interviewee, problems with questions,
  etc) have you encountered with during the
  interviews? What did you do to overcome such
  problems? Provide as much details as possible
  about interview.

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Homework assignments

• Assignment 5. Due on Thursday, November 9th
• Observation assignment.
• Bonus Assignment Photo essay. Due on Friday,
  November 24th
• Choose any topic related to your research
  question. The essay should include photos taken
  by you. The number of photographs should be no
  more than six. The photo essay might be based on
  photographs only or with some explanations.
• Assignment 6. Due on Tuesday, November 28th
• You have to submit the transcript of ONE
  interview.

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Other assignments

• Written research project (220 40 of final
  grade)
• Students will conduct qualitative research on the
  topic of their own choosing. Students will define
  the study problems and propose methods to address
  these problems, carry out data collection and
  analysis.
• Paper 1 should identify the research topic, key
  research questions as well as present the related
  literature review.
• Paper 2 should include the revised paper 1, the
  method of data gathering and preliminary analysis
  of data collected. The deadlines for the papers
  are indicated in the schedule. Any students who
  plagiarize will get an F grade for that
  assignment. Further information on the research
  papers will be distributed later in the semester.

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Benefits of using homework assignments

• Students have started working on their projects
  as much as earlier, so they do not rush at the
  end of semester
• They followed the stages of research projects
• It was much easier to monitor the work of
  students during the semester, so we could suggest
  to change the topic or methods of research at the
  earlier stage as possible

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Problems encountered with these assignments

• We have found that it would be better to ask
  students to prepare Index chart before doing
  analysis
• It would be better to include reflection on
  interview to the transcript of interview also

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Using ATLAS TI computerized program for
qualitative data analysis
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Uploading files
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Uploading files
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Code Manager
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Code Manager
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Giving a new Code
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Assigning a Code
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Quotation Manager
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Outputs