Chapter 8: DATA ANALYSIS REPRESENTATION

Three Analysis Strategies

The Data Analysis Spiral
MIRAFLOR M. CANDEL
 THREE ANALYSIS STRATEGIES
• Preparing And Organizing The Data
• Reducing The Data Into Themes Through The Process Of
Coding And Condensing
• Representing The Data In figures , tables, or a Discussion
 THREE QUALITATIVE RESEARCHERS

MADISON (2005)
-presents an interpretive framework taken from critical ethnography

HUBERMAN AND MILES (1994)

-adopt a systematic approach to analysis that has a long history of use in qualitative inquiry

WOLCOTT(1994b)
- Uses a more traditional approach to research from ethnography and case study analysis.
 Table 8.1 General Data Analysis Strategies Advanced By Select Authors

Analytic Strategy Madison (2005) Huberman &Miles (1994) Wolcott (1994b)

Sketching Ideas Write margin notes in field notes Highlight certain information in
description
Taking Notes Write a reflective passages in notes

Summarizing Filed Notes Draft a summary sheets on field notes

Working with words Make metaphors

Identifying codes Do abstract coding or concrete coding Write codes, memos

Reducing codes to themes Identify salient themes or patterns Note patterns and themes Identify patterned regularities

Counting frequency of codes Count frequency of codes

Relating Categories Factor, note relations among variables

build a logical chain of evidence

Relating categories to analytic Contextualize with the framework from

framework in literarture the literature

Creating a point of view For scenes, audience,readers

Displaying the data Create a graph or picture of the Make contrasts and comparisons Display findings in tables charts,
framework diagrams and figures compare cases,
compare with a standard case.
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