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Working With and Sharing Working With and Sharing Interview MaterialInterview Material
9310028A Isaac9310028A Isaac 9310044A Nicole9310044A Nicole 9310056A Nancy9310056A Nancy
9310804A Ivy9310804A Ivy 9310902A Albee9310902A Albee
Instructor: Mavis ShangInstructor: Mavis ShangDate: May. 7. 2008Date: May. 7. 2008
Managing the Data
organize the material & keep accessible
1.trace interview data to the original source 2.contact participant readily
pay attention
Keeping Interviewing and Analysis Separate
gathering and analyzing data → difficult to separate → integrate the 2 stages, each informs the
other 1. conduct interviews 2. study & analyze 3. frame new questions 4. conduct further interviews
Tape-recorded Interviews tiresome to transcribe listen to the tapes several times →then pick out important sections →then transcribe
Disadvantages: preselect parts of the tape
and omit others → premature judgmentsAdvantage: labor-saving
Studying and Reducing the Text
reducing data → inductively > deductively → open attitude → objectivity ( let the interview speak for itself)
Marking what is of interest in the text●To read and mark with brackets what is interest.
* What is of essential interest is embedded in
each researcher topic and will arise from each
transcript. (depend on your major points)
● Reading with judgment
● Mark the interest information that attracts your
attention (do not hesitate and be doubt)
● Researchers check those marked information with
participants.
Sharing interview data: Profiles and themes
● In order to reduce materials, reseacher marks the interest part and then shape material for sharing and display.
* To group participants’ profile into categories.
* To mark individual massages group
the information into categories study the
categories, study the connections within
groups and among groups.
Two ways to share interview data
Rationale for crafting profiles The complete and compelling datum conclude
beginning, a middle, an end, sense of conflict and resolution can be shaped into a profile of the participant.
If it is not complete data, then it can be supported as short narrative.
The transcripts in participants’ own words can transmit the person’s consciousness.
The crafting profiles:
To display the coherence of participants’ experience details
To share the coherence that they has expressed
To link their individual experience into the context.
Steps in Crafting a Profile
1. Read the transcript2. Mark passages of interest3. Label those passages4. Make two copies of the marked and
labeled transcript5. Cut and file the marked passages (paste them together into a single
transcript)6. Read the cut-and-paste transcript7. Craft a narrative
A Profile
◆ Present the words of the participant
◆ Use the first–person voice of the participant
E.g. It’s my ninth year. I only wanted to do it
for a year….
◆ Put some language in brackets (let readers know the language is
inserted in order to clarify a passage) E.g. I think [day care] a lot of the times
helps the parents.
◆ Use ellipses to omit material or skip paragraphs or pages E.g. It makes me feel real good….
◆ Delete certain characteristics of oral speech
E.g. “uhms”, “ahs”, “you know”.
◆ Present material in the order in which it comes in the interviews a. Don’t change meaning b. Faithful to present material
A Consideration
- Protect the identity of the participant ◆ Use a pseudonym ◆ Change certain identity background E.g. A freshman becomes a junior
★ The disguise must not misrepresent what the
participant has said in the interview.
Making Thematic Connections
1. A more conventional way of presenting interview data is to organize excerpts from the transcripts into categories.
* excerpts=citation
2. Theme: Connections between the various categories
1.During the process of reading and marking the transcripts of interview, the researcher can being
to label the passages that he or she has marked as interesting.
2.Locking in categories too early can lead to dead ends because some of categories will work out.
1.Researchers should also label each passage with a coding system that will designate its original place in the transcript.
* designate=point out
2.Coding system can help you retrace original place of excerpt in the transcript
*coding system:
ex. Roman numeral (I. II. III.) for the
interview sequence Arabic numbers (1.2.3) for the page
number of transcript
1.File those excerpts either in computer or in folders
2.The process of working with excerpts from participants’ interviews, seeking connections among them, and building interpretative categories is demanding and involves risks.
3.The danger is that the researcher will try to force the excerpts into categories, and the categories into themes that he or she already has in mind, rather than let them develop from the experience of the participants as represented in the interview.
Interpreting and analyzing the material
What is Interpreting and analyzing??*Making passages that are of interest*labeling them *grouping them *crafting a profile ---excerpts arranged
in categories.
Final step in the process
asking what you learned from interview
Studying the transcripts Making label of them crafting a profile Organize categories
What connections?---participant What do u understand now? -- than
before What conformation of previous
instincts? How consistent/ inconsistent? -
literature
*events *structures*roles*social forces--------------------------------
Theories-> the purpose of research