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AIR Lecture 6:
Qualitative methods and sampling strategies.
Seminar am: Coding qualitative data
Log entries of critical incidents in an academic library
Exercise 1: Amanda
This short text is by a young woman who discovered she was pregnant. Read the 10 lines of text and decide which of the listed codes describes what is happening in each line.
Exercise 2: Karen
This short text is by a young woman talking about leaving home. Read the 10 lines of text and then type in your own code for each line of text.
Basic Referencing guide (Word file)
For a more comprehensive referencing guide use: Pears, R. and Shields, G., (2004) "Cite them right: Referencing made easy", Northumbria University Press, Newcastle upom Tyne.
Printed references:
Silverman, D. (2001) Interpreting Qualitative Data, 2nd edition, Sage Publications. Ch. 1; 7; 8
Online references for Qualitative analysis:
QDA site - University of Huddersfield
Focus Groups
Interviewing
Observation
Seidel, J.V. (1998) Qualitative Data Analysis (Acrobat file)
Stemler, Steve (2001)An overview of content analysis. Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 7(17).
Example of open-ended questions
Investigation of blog use to illustrate how open-ended questions can elicit the respondents' views
Results for the CLIST survey
Content analysis exercise to ascertain the medical librarians' perceptions of their professional role and establish a profile the users they support.
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