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Assignment: Instructions
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to familiarize you with the process of coding and analyzing qualitative data.
Instructions:
1. Read through the entire document and complete the code book using the instructions provided.
2. Submit the final code book along with a summary of the major themes or most common pet peeves noted to the drop box. Your analysis of the data should be a minimum of 3-4 full paragraphs.
3. You can submit the last page of the assignment with the code book and analysis. You do not need a formal APA paper with a title page and references. No references are required for this assignment. Simply provide your assessment based on the data that you coded.
Qualitative Coding Assignment
Content coding is one way to identify the themes or patterns found in the narrative text of qualitative research studies. The qualitative research assignment for Week 8requires you to content code the narrative pet peeves of 10 nursing and social work students taking courses in a "brick and mortar" university. These students were asked to anonymously describe the problems (or "pet peeves") they experienced in previous courses that detracted from their learning experience. Get Assignment Help from the Best tutors!
To complete this assignment, you need the three documents: the student narrative text on pet peeves, the code scheme, and the code sheet. Below is a description of each of these documents. All of the needed resources can be found in this document.
Student Narrative Text on Course Pet Peeves (Page 3):You will see the narrative text written by each of the 10 students in this document. Each student has a unique identification (ID) number. For example, 001 is the ID number of the first student and 010 is number for the last student. Some students only wrote about one pet peeve, whereas others listed up to two or more pet peeves. If a student listed two or more pet peeves, a "vertical bar" |is used to separate each them. Take a look at the student whose ID number is 002. This student's first pet peeve about course readings is separated from the second one by a vertical bar (|).
Coding Scheme: Student Pet Peeve Data (Page 4): A code scheme has unique numbers linked to different types of content or themes found in narrative text. For this assignment, you will see a unique number for each different type of pet peeve.For example, a pet peeve on not being able to locate required readingsis assigned the number "01". Sometimes the content of narrative text cannot be categorized, because it is unclear or doesn't make sense. For this assignment, this type of narrative text is given the code number "99". If narrative text is not a pet peeve, it is given the code number "97".
Code Sheet: Student Pet Peeve Data (Page 5): This is the form that you use to enter the code scheme number for each pet peeve in a student's narrative text. The first column of the code sheet lists the student's unique ID number. The next column (Code 1) is used to write the number from the code scheme that best describes the content of the first pet peeve listed by the student. The second column (Code 2) is for the second pet peeve, and the third column (Code 3) is for the last one.