L3&4: Pattern/Theme/Code & Thematic Analysis

Question 1

A word phrase which symbolically defines a summative, salient, essence-capturing, and evocative attribute for a portion of language-based or visual data

Answer 1

Code

Question 2

Reduce voluminous amounts of data to smaller manageable groupings

Answer 2

Coding

Question 3

Coding reduce voluminous amounts of data to smaller manageable groupings

Answer 3

Code

Question 4

generated when similar issues and ideas expressed by participants within qualitative data are bought together by the researcher into a single category or cluster.

Answer 4

Theme

Question 5

Happens in regular repeated way

Answer 5

Pattern

Question 6

Searching for similarities and patterns in Qualitative data set such as interview transcript

Answer 6

Thematic analysis

Question 7

Thematic analysis steps (6)

Answer 7

Familiarization with the data
Coding
Searching for themes
Reviewing themes
Defining & Naming Themes
Writing Up

Question 8

This phase involve reading and re-reading the data, to become im- mersed and intimately familiar with its content

Answer 8

Familr.w.t.data

Question 9

codes is aka

Answer 9

succinct labels

Question 10

this phase involves generating succint lalbes (codes) that identify important features of the data that might be relevant to answering the research question

Answer 10

Coding

Question 11

It involves coding the entire data set, and after that, collating all the codes and all relevant data Extracts, together for later stage of analysis.

Answer 11

Coding

Question 12

involves examining the codes and collated data to identify significant broader patterns of meaning (poten- tial themes)

Answer 12

Searching for themes

Question 13

It then involves collating data relevant to each candidate theme, so that you can work with the data and review the viability of each candidate theme.

Answer 13

Searching for themes

Question 14

This phase involves examining checking the candidate themes against the data set, to determine if they tell a convincing story of the data, and one that answers the research question

Answer 14

Reviewing themes

Question 15

In this phone, themes are typically refined, which sometimes involves them being split, combined, or discarded.

Answer 15

Reviewing themes

Question 16

The phase involves developing a detailed analysis of each theme, working out the scope and focus of each theme determining the “story” of eacg

Answer 16

Defin.andnamjng themes

Question 17

Involves ok deciding informative names for each theme

Answer 17

Def. & nam theme

Question 18

This final phase involves weaving together the analytic narrative data and extracts and contextualizing the analytic in relation to existing literature.

Answer 18

Writing Up