PR1-Q4-W6-RELATING THE FINDINGS TO ITS RELEVANT LITERATURE

Six (6) Steps in THEMATIC Analysis

1. Familiarization with the data

2. ​Coding

3. Searching for Themes

4. Reviewing themes

5. Defining and naming themes

6. Writing up

Six (6) Steps in QULITATIVE Analysis

1. Know your data

2. ​Focus your analysis

3. Do Coding

4. Clean your data

5. Identify meaningful patterns and themes

6. Interpret your data

1. Know your data

   • involves reading and re-reading the text​

2. Focusing your analysis​

   • focus by question or topic, time period, or event

   • focus by case, individual, or group

3. Coding​

   • Predefined codes

   • Emergent codes

Six (6) Steps in QULITATIVE Analysis

4. ​Clean your data

   -Spot checking​- comparing the raw data to the electronic data to check for data entry and coding errors

   -Eye-balling​ - involves reviewing the data for errors that may have resulted from a data entry or coding oversight

   -Logic check- involves a careful review of the electronically entered data to make sure that the answers to the different questions make sense

Six (6) Steps in QULITATIVE Analysis

5. ​Identifying meaningful patterns and themes

   -the core process of qualitative data analysis

   • two primary ways:

     (1) Content analysis

     (2) Thematic analysis

6. Interpreting your data

   • steps in interpreting your data:

     (1) Points or important findings should be listed.

     (2) The lessons learned and new things should be noted.

     (3) Quotes or descriptive examples given by the participants should be included.

     (4) The newfound knowledge from other settings, programs or reviewed literature should be applied.

Six (6) Steps in QULITATIVE Analysis

​Let's Practice!

Think of a possible preset codes/categories/themes for the given questions:

1. How do you deal with bullies?

2. What are the challenges of the online distance learning modality?

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Analyzing the Meaning of the Data and Drawing Conclusions

By Eriberta Alcaide

The relation between the work done, the original research questions, previous work discussed in the literature review chapter, and any new work appearing since the study began

Subject | Subject

Some text here about the topic of discussion

Guide questions:

1. Are your research results consistent with previously published results on this topic?

2. If yes, do your research results confirm or further support your existing knowledge/conclusions from previous studies in research?

3. If not, do the research methodologies used in these studies differ from what you used in yours? Could the differences be attributed to differences in factors such as the sample size, animal models, patient characteristics, geographic location of the study, time or length of study, experimental conditions, and outcome measures?

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Relating Findings to Relevant Literature

Guide questions:

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4. Irrespective of whether your research results are consistent or inconsistent with those of previous studies in your research field, are your interpretations aligned with those presented by the authors of these studies?

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5. ​How relevant or significant are your research results in the context of existing literature

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Relating Findings to Relevant Literature

​EXAMPLE OF RELATING FINDINGS TO THE RELEVANT LITERATURE

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The attributes which work provides for an individual such as the latent functions proposed by Jahoda (1982) (time structure, status, and identity, goals anchored in collective participation, social experiences, and enforced activity) were seen as significant by the participants because they provide meaning and purpose to a persons life and were therefore seen as a prerequisite to overall well-being.

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"A Qualitative Study of the Psychological Impact of​ Unemployment on Individuals," by Marie Conroy (2010)

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​"Learning from a Distance: The Experience of Remote Students," by Janet Owens, et.al. (20009)

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Relating Findings to Relevant Literature

​"Learning from a Distance: The Experience of Remote Students," by Janet Owens, et.al. (2009)

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Relating Findings to Relevant Literature