Transcript TYPES OF NOTES Jotted notes Transcript said

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 of how 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
1. OPPORTUNITIES
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2. CHALLENGES
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3. STRATEGIES
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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”