Definitions
General groupings of related concepts that
help identify themes that emerge from the data.
Categories
Allows the researcher to mine the data for all
possible analytic ideas and theoretical avenues that have the potential to develop.
Open coding
These constitute brief descriptions of what occurs
during data gathering and initial impressions about what emerges from the data.
Field notes
What is the first step of Ensuring Trustworthiness of the Findings?
Check for representativeness.
The process of making sense of the data by
succinctly describing what the data are telling the
researcher.
Coding
Data can be analyzed in detail by using this type of coding
Word by word coding
happens during the coding process and comprises the “products of analysis” that help direct the researcher to what is “analytical and conceptual rather than descriptive”.
Memoing
What is the fourth step of Ensuring Trustworthiness of the Findings?
Weigh the evidence.
Ideas that emerge from the phenomena
being studied in raw (unanalyzed) form.
Concepts
Breaking down the data through coding helps the researcher begin to see nuances within the data and the complex relationships between which three topics?
Concepts, properties, and
dimensions.
Memoing in visual form and depicts
conceptual maps that help develop and delineate the
emerging process.
Diagramming
What is the seventh step of Ensuring Trustworthiness of the Findings?
Look for negative evidence.
A method used to organize analytical notes,
memos, and diagrams into a logical sequence that
stimulates the developing theory and organization of the
written results of the study.
Sorting
This consists of naming each line of the
dialogue to detect important processes within the data and is where most grounded theorists begin their initial analyses.
Line-by-line coding
This method has researchers write down an idea and then branch out associations from the idea as a way of visually brainstorming and connecting categories.
Clustering
What is the tenth step of Ensuring Trustworthiness of the Findings?
Replicate a finding.
A systematic qualitative methodology that emphasizes the generation of theory from data while conducting research.
Grounded Theory
Helps develop categories by grouping codes
into larger segments based on emerging themes.
Focused coding
Allows researchers to write in short bursts of
time without the constraints of conventional form and
parallels free association, encouraging writing down
whatever bursts into researchers’ consciousness.
Freewriting
What is the last step of Ensuring Trustworthiness of the Findings?
Get feedback from informants