PSI Tutor:Mentor

Coding

• Relate the themes to the theory/model that you have chosen.
• If you have done the interviews/focus groups/narrative without using a theory first then the data collected may not provide insights into that theory in answering the question.
• Coded = a practice when analysing data so that the data (e.g., sentences from interviews) can be entered into a spreadsheet that requires numbers.

Table 1

Example of Coding Sentences in an Interview/Focus Group/Narrative

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Data

I think my Islamic beliefs do not bias my translation of Arabic to English

Code           Students                 Translators      (group frequency of responses)

1                    3                                 0

I think my Islamic beliefs biases my translation sometimes

Code           Students                 Translators

2                  34                                5

I think my belief in Islam biases my translation in a big way

Code           Students                 Translators

3                   11                                0

• Colorado State University (1993-2006) Content analysis: Overview http://www.geocities.com/geografiums/4a.pdf
• Fox (2008) Content analysis: The hows & whys to understanding your content http://chiarafox.com/euroia_cfox08.pdf
• Miller & Worthington (2001). Assessing inter-rater agreement in the coding of narrative data[PowerPoint presentation]. http://bss.sfsu.edu/kemiller/presentations/miller-apa2001_inter-rater_agreement.pdf

Ethics

• The qualitative researcher needs to acknowledge the biases that exist, due to the method being qualitative; a useful site: http://tigger.uic.edu/~lwbenn/jacswcourses/socw360/week14.htm

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