Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) : Applied Research Seminar
Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) : Applied Research Seminar
Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) : Applied Research Seminar
Data Analysis
(QDA)
Applied Research Seminar
February 2017
Qualitative Data
• Data that are not easily reduced to numbers
What are some of the challenges
that your students face in
Reading Challenges Time constraints
developing their critical thinking
skills?
How do you help to enhance the
Need authentic learning
critical thinking skills of your Greater immersion in reading
students? experience
What supplementary materials
do you encourage your students
Need to Read newspapers Reading of Journals
to read within the subject area?
Collating Data into a Table of Coded
Responses
Explanation of Themes
• Write up and explain the themes in narrative
format under the specific research question
• Use a few actual quotes from the participants
responses to validate your narrative (3 -5 is
enough)
• Do this for each major theme that emerged
from the data
Example of Narrative Format
• RQ: Why do students have problem with critical thinking?
• Reading challenges. When asked what are the challenges that
students face in developing critical thinking skills the teachers
interviewed felt that students had reading challenges. Many
students were reading below their grade levels with limited
vocabulary. This made it difficult for students to decipher the
meaning of written work.
• The following are some direct quotation from the participants:
• [1] “Students do not read on their own. Hence they cannot think
critically when given the opportunity”.
• [2] “Their reading level”.
• [3] “They are unable to decipher the meaning of some key terms
used in the question”.
Class Activity-Individual
• Develop a Table of Code Responses from the
qualitative data that you collected during the
Practicum exercise
• Write up and explain your themes using the
narrative format
• Share your results with the class