Applied Information Research (AIR) wk 6

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AIR Lecture 6:

Qualitative methods and sampling strategies. The file used in the lecture contains a list of log entries of critical incidents in an academic library.

Seminar am: Coding qualitative data

Content analysis exercise using the responses to the online survey completed by ISM and DIGIM students. Results for Question 10 are given separately.

From this data devise a set of recommendations for the School of Information Management assessing the strengths and weakenesses of its marketing strategies about the two courses.

2.00-3.00 Examining the methodology chapter and evaluating a data analysis chapter with the original dissertation plan

Seminar pm: Qualitative Data Analysis

Exercise 1: Amanda
This short text is by a young woman who discovered she was pregnant. Read the 10 lines of text and decide which of the listed codes describes what is happening in each line.

Exercise 2: Karen
This short text is by a young woman talking about leaving home. Read the 10 lines of text and then type in your own code for each line of text.

Basic Referencing guide (Word file)

For a more comprehensive referencing guide use: Pears, R. and Shields, G., (2004) "Cite them right: Referencing made easy", Northumbria University Press, Newcastle upom Tyne.

Printed references:

Silverman, D. (2001) Interpreting Qualitative Data, 2nd edition, Sage Publications. Ch. 1; 7; 8

Weber, R.P. (1990) Basic Content Analysis. Sage University Paper, 2nd edition.

Online references for Qualitative analysis:

QDA site - University of Huddersfield

Focus Groups

Interviewing

Observation

Seidel, J.V. (1998) Qualitative Data Analysis (Acrobat file)

Stemler, Steve (2001)An overview of content analysis. Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 7(17).

Example of open-ended questions

Investigation of blog use to illustrate how open-ended questions can elicit the respondents' views

Results for the CLIST survey

Content analysis exercise to ascertain the medical librarians' perceptions of their professional role and establish a profile the users they support.