Education 719A - 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.

Phd (Doctoral) Students Only Pre Req: EDUC 619 All students enrolling in this course must have a data set from a qualitative research course. Please contact the instructor about enrollment if you are a masters student, or if you have not taken EDUC 619, but you have taken another qualitative research course.