Topic: Coding Open-ended Responses
1. Presentation and Videos
Document: Qualitative Data Analysis of Open-ended Questionnaire Items
Videos
2. Supplemental Readings
Note - ignore material below - not yet incorporated into EDUR 9131
(a) Qualitative Data Analysis
- Brief review of process
- Study, read data carefully
- Begin coding data
- Inductive: codes, categories, themes are derived from raw data, emergent
- Deductive: codes, categories, theme developed prior to analysis of data
- Mixed: initial codes developed or expected prior to analysis, but revisions, deletions, additions occur during analysis
- Identify categories or groupings of codes, develop codebook and codesheet
- Identify patterns and connections among and within categories
- Repeat process until one believes little more can be gained from repeating steps above
- Independent coders should attempt to code data or samples of data and reliability of coding assessed
- Develop report of results/findings - tables of codes/categories, quotations, descriptions
(b) Codebooks/Code sheets
- Development: See readings below.
- Sample codebooks and code forms (many examples here): http://academic.csuohio.edu/kneuendorf/content/hcoding/hcindex.htm
- Sample Questionnaire and Coding Form:
- Sample questionnaire: sample_survey_open_ended_authorship.pdf
- Sample code form: sample_code_sheet_open_ended_authorship.pdf
- Coded response #420: open_ended_coding_example_420.pdf
- Coded response #1140: open_ended_coding_example_1140.pdf
- Published version of questionnaire and results presented above: Moore & Griffin 2006