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Note: This assignment is the required and graded assignment for Week 4. This assignment is NOT the optional badging activity. Please complete and submit this assignment.
With a developing understanding of research designs and data collection methods, you can now begin to understand the concept of qualitative data analysis and select an appropriate data analysis method. This week, you will demonstrate your understanding of qualitative data analysis methods, as well as the appropriate application as prescribed by qualitative research principles. This assignment includes several prompts, and there is an option regarding presentation (essay, set of blog posts, or PowerPoint presentation). As with Week 3, in line with the principles of Andragogy, offering you a presentation choice will accommodate your individual preferences and abilities.
This week, you are provided with an explanation of how to structure a presentation (Spotlight on Skills). Remember, slides are visual aids to support what you would say during a presentation. This resource will help you to compose your slides in a way that effectively balances visuals and text. You are also provided with an explanation of how to create a blog entry (Spotlight on Skills). Note that a blog (shortening of “weblog”) is a set of online informational posts, with a writer communicating their views on a subject in a conversational manner. Blogging is typically used for teaching and educational purposes.
You have covered a lot of material these past 4 weeks. Now, you have an opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge of qualitative methodology and designs through a true/false knowledge check. Correctly answering all of these quiz items will earn you a badge!
For this week’s assignment, you will consider a data analysis method that aligns with the qualitative research design for a potential study that you proposed in Week 2. Address each of the following four prompts as an essay, series of blog posts, or presentation:
Explain your proposed method of data analysis in detail, and how this method aligns with your chosen research design.
Discuss what you see as the advantages and potential challenges of the proposed method.
Explain how you will code data, by providing examples to illustrate your analysis process. Based on your topic and research design as explored in Week 2, develop a mock coding scheme that includes a preliminary set of start codes. These codes can come from the relevant literature on your topic, or you can come up with some ideas based on your own experience.
Whether you choose to engage in a manual coding process to analyze your research data or to use NVivo (the data analysis software that is available to you through the University), there are some features regarding coding and analysis that are common to both approaches. Explain in what ways you think manual coding and software coding will be similar and/or different? State your preference, explaining the reasons for your choice.
Length: If you choose to write an essay, this assignment will be at least 3 pages.