The student-participants’ answers have been compiled into a Word document by your instructor and posted in the announcements. You are required to analyze all of the student-participant responses, contained in the Word document, using a qualitative method of analysis to make sense of the data. You should keep in mind the class discussions and course material related to ethics and confidentiality in your writing and analysis. This assignment is graded out of 40.
Assignment purpose: This assignment provides you with an opportunity to demonstrate your ability to apply a qualitative technique to analyzing and writing up qualitative data. As qualitative research focuses on process, the most important piece of this assignment is to demonstrate the analysis process and how you used it to make sense of the data. As part of this process, please include a copy of your coding as an appendix to your assignment, in one document. Do not submit your coding as a separate document.
Read the responses from your classmates in the discussion thread. Make notes as you see fit. You will likely need to review the responses multiple times.
Read the other resources and watch the videos provided by your instructor, particularly as it relates to coding data.
Apply the data analysis strategy to the data and test the analysis through the words of the participants (i.e. demonstrate, through the words of the participants, how they spoke about the theme to prove the existence of the theme). Demonstrate the diversity and the similarities in how the participants spoke about each of the themes.
Draw your conclusions and write up your process andfindings.
NOTE: Attach your analysis to the end of your assignment as part of the document. Do not submit
more than one document. Analysis documents include mind maps, theme development, colour coding of themes, etc. Photos of analysis documents are permitted, as long as they are included within the one assignment document.
Assignment Guidelines: You are expected to include a(n):
1) Title for the study (1)
2) Introduction to the study (4)
3) Description of the sample & methodology (5)
4) Analysis section (10)
5) Discussion of findings (5)
6) Discussion of limitations & conclusion (5)
7) Appendices: data analysis documentation (5)
8) Referencing, grammar/spelling, clarity of writing (5)
Grading will be particularly focused on the critical analysis and justification for decisions being made rather than on the specific content or categories you select.
Do not forget to draw into the analysis, the words of your participants, through direct quotes. This is the whole purpose of qualitative research. Using direct quotes from the participants demonstrates that the theme you have identified actually does exist in the data. Participants must be identified by a number or a letter in the write-up. For example, Participant #4 stated…”
Treat this assignment as a practice session for writing up qualitative research for publication to an academic journal. In other words, write in an academic fashion (e.g. do not use contractions, avoid the use of I, and do not include descriptions of your personal experience with analyzing the data or qualitative analysis).
Re-read the paper, Bringing the trauma home: Spouses of paramedics that was part of the study material provided to help you prepare assignment #1. This article will give you an example of how to write up qualitative data. Read the two qualitative papers found in Module 11, which demonstrate the style of qualitative analysis writing.
Read the textbook chapter on coding qualitative data. Watch the videos that demonstrate various ways to code qualitative data.
Please ensure that you do not provide a quantitative assessment of qualitative data. This means you do not use numbers to analyze the data, nor do you present the results in graph or chart format. You present the results of qualitative analysis in one way … through the words of your participants.
Keep the analysis (findings) section focused on presenting the analysis. Makes sure you weave the quotes from the participants into a narrative on the theme, demonstrating the various ways (similarities and differences) in how the participants spoke about the theme. While it is okay to provide commentary to explain or put into context quotes from the participant, be careful not to provide discussion commentary here. Save that for the “Discussion of Findings Section.”
Do not include the names of the participants in the analysis or in the appendices. Assign every participant a number or an alphabetical letter.
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