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TYPES OF NOTES. Jotted notes written during the interview Brief Exact words where possible Transcript – record of what the person said Base on jotted notes and memory Write as soon as possible after interview Include exact quotes and language Do not include inferences here.
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TYPES OF NOTES • Jotted notes written during the interview • Brief • Exact words where possible • Transcript – record of what the person said • Base on jotted notes and memory • Write as soon as possible after interview • Include exact quotes and language • Do not include inferences here
TYPES OF NOTES, continued • Researcher inference notes: Your interpretation of (parts of the) transcript • Analytic notes: Your record ofhow you proceeded • How the research went • What decisions you made • Etc. • Personal notes are feelings and emotional reactions that color what a researcher sees or hears • These can all be combined, or kept separate from each other; must keep separate from transcript
CODING • ASSIGNING MEANING TO DATA • DATA: • TRANSCRIPT • QUOTES, EPISODES, ETC. • MEANING: CONCEPTS • IDEA • NAME • DEFINITION
CODING DATA • Initial coding (Open) • Code in margins of transcript • Create list of codes (on page, index cards, etc) • Codes range from concrete to abstract • Re-coding • Go back over coded transcripts • Add to, remove, change, combine, break apart initial codes • Final coding • Develop final list of codes, including hierarchies • Find examples (quotes, stories, episodes) that illustrate final codes
FINAL CODING • Use initial codes to ask key questions, and scan the data: • What is this a case of? What other cases are there? • What are the sub-categories of this case? • What are important comparisons, contrasts? • Note where you have data, where you do not
BUILD TOWARD • CLASSIFICATIONS • IDEAL-TYPES • TYPOLOGIES • SIMPLER SETS OF CATEGORIES • EMPIRICAL GENERALIZATIONS • HYPOTHESES
NESTED CODES • OPPORTUNITIES • CHALLENGES • STRATEGIES
CODING – OBSERVATIONS • Make codes reasonably specific • “likes class discussion” not “likes” or “school” • If need be, include general and specific in the same code • E.g. “frustration – parking” not “frustration”