Education 797A - ST-Qualitative Data Analysis

Students will be introduced to foundational philosophies and strategies for qualitative data analysis, coding their own data sets in weekly workshop and discussion settings. Strategies will be presented for setting up and organizing a database, coding and sorting data into categories, modifying and refining the scheme, aggregating data into larger themes or patterns, establishing audit trails, triangulating among data sources, participants and methodologies, and establishing trustworthiness of the data set. Finally, students will learn about and experiment with newly available software for qualitative data analysis.

Pre Req: EDUC 619