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Data Analysis and Identifying Themes: A Six-Step ProcessBog'liq диссер англData Analysis and Identifying Themes: A Six-Step Process
My coding and data analysis process was a six-step approach beginning with listening to
the interviews and reading the interview transcripts (see Table 4). I listened to audio recordings
multiple times and compared participants’ accounts to the drawings they created during one of
our interviews. I looked for discrepancies in their stories and confirmations as I began to write
memos reflecting and making the initial connections between their responses and the research
questions.
Table 4
Coding and Data Analysis Procedure
Step
Data analysis process
Description
1
Read transcripts and
listen to interviews
Complete multiple cycles of listening to audio interviews
and read transcripts multiple times comparing verbal
accounts to drawings looking for discrepancies and
confirmations and making initial links between the
research questions and the responses (Creswell et al.,
2011).
2
First cycle coding:
Coding units of data
Using NVivo software, all participant transcripts were
uploaded and nodes or codes were created. Creating this
type of coding/nodes involved identifying sentences,
passages, and paragraphs of data using gerunds as codes
to bring processes and structures to the fore (Charmaz,
2014).
3
Second cycle coding:
Developing categories
This step of the process involved combining codes/nodes
from Step 2 into fewer categories. During this step, I
began to look for areas where codes and/or categories
converged or diverged and how. Nodes that converged
were combined into categories, and nodes that diverged
were kept as their own category.
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