CTL7015: Educational

Research II
Gurpreet Sahmbi
Land Acknowledgement
I wish to acknowledge the traditional lands of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the
Mississaugas of the Credit, on which I am grateful to live and work. In recognizing my
position as a settler on these lands, and my power as an educator, I hold a deep
responsibility to uphold commitments of friendship and peace, the need to unlearn
untruths and learn and disseminate truth, and to share and nurture this space I live and
work on with respect and humility. Part of my work is to recognize that though the city that
is now known as Toronto exists under an agreement called the Toronto Purchase (Treaty
13) between the British Crown and Mississaugas of the Credit, the conditions and payment
imposed were unfair to the original stewards of this land. And yet, in the unfairness of this
agreement, the Indigenous peoples who are still here on this land, model for me, a settler,
how to be in relation with the lands I am on. I am grateful to be here, and grateful to
continue learning.
 • Check-in
• Entry ticket
• Assignment #1C
• Some examples
Agenda • Qualitative data analysis:
• Coding à Categories à Themes
• Analysis activity (small groups)
• Upcoming deadlines: Assignment #1C
(December 3rd, 2023)
Check-in: • How are we doing?
Data • Entry ticket:
https://forms.office.com/r/sjM2F937FA
Collection
 • Thematic Analysis Process: A Walk-Through
Assignment • The purpose of this assignment is to provide
an explicit look into your data analysis
#1C (due: process BEFORE the winter holidays
Dec. 3rd, • This allows me to give you feedback and for you
to begin the task of data analysis and sense-
2023) making
 • For those conducting interviews, this
assignment will include a link to a digital
portfolio (e.g. outlook drive, google drive)
that includes:
• a word document outlining your research
question(s), participant sampling criteria,
Assignment interview protocol, and a list of all draft themes;
#1C: • your interview transcripts with evidence of your
analytical coding/memoing; and
Interviews • a short screencast (3-5 minutes, max) or written
walk-through (2 pages, max) describing the full
analysis process of ONE of your draft themes
(and any corresponding sub-themes), explaining
how you moved from raw data to theme.
*length limits not to be exceeded.
 • For those conducting document analysis, this
assignment will include a link to a digital portfolio
(e.g. outlook drive, google drive) that includes:
• a word document outlining your research
Assignment question(s), document sampling criteria,
document analysis protocol, and a list of all draft
#1C: themes;
• document data with evidence of your analytical
Document coding/memoing; and
• a short screencast (3-5 minutes, max) or written
Analysis walk-through (2 pages, max) describing the full
analysis process of ONE of your draft themes
(and any corresponding sub-themes), explaining
how you moved from raw data to theme.
*length limits not to be exceeded.
Some examples
Breather
 • The data you will be analyzing is text-based
• This means that once you’ve collected your
audio-recorded data (if you are conducting
interviews), you must first transcribe your
interviews verbatim
Data • The transcripts OR documents will be form
Collection à the basis of your raw data
• This is what you analyze!
Data Analysis
Note to interviewers: all identifying
information will need to be anonymized for
the final paper (e.g., use pseudonyms for
people, places, etc.).
 • “By reading and rereading the corpus, you
gain familiarity with its contents and begin
to notice significant details as well as make
Analyzing new insights about their meetings. Patterns,
Data categories, and their interrelationships
become more evident the more you know
the subtleties of the database” (Saldaña,
2014, pp. 6-7)
 • …codes function as a way of patterning,
classifying, and later reorganizing them into
emergent categories for further analysis”
Making (Saldaña, 2014, p. 8)
sense of • Coding à Categories à Themes
• Crudely: categories come from clusters of
codes codes, and themes come from clusters of
categories
 • In small groups, you will be tasked with
looking at small chunks of a transcript and
trying to agree on codes, and then
consolidate those codes into categories
Analysis • This may involve cutting/pasting, colour coding,
playing with text aesthetics, etc. ß try out what
Activity works for you!
• Google doc links will be shared in the chat
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KXWx_S
3Ur061GBWSw0MNaMjt4CFqeiUebJ92hxO4CBw
/edit?usp=sharing
Breather
 • Keep memos (on your phone, laptop,
handwritten – whatever works for you)
• Read through your data without coding at
Reminder: least once
Some tips! • If you have a framework, this should guide
how you view the work
• Writing a summary, writing in the margins
• Stay in conversation with your data
 • You do not necessarily want to give your
interview protocol FAR in advance, and
participants cannot answer questions via email
REMINDER: • A harm-mitigation strategy is to provide interviewees
with the protocol at the beginning of the interview
Some so that they can digest the questions; alternately,
you can post questions in the ZOOM chat
logistical • Reminder: NO video can be recorded (only
audio)
notes for • Informed consent must be received before the
interviews interview begins (digital signatures are
acceptable)
• CANNOT interview current ATs or faculty
members (i.e., anyone who is evaluating you)
 • Once you have the “GO” for 1A: Collect
Next steps your data!!!
• Analyze your data!
 • Block runs from Nov. 6 – Dec. 1
• Reminder: you are required to register for and
attend one workshop (but can go to more!)
Research • A PDF file is available on Pepper that lists all
Block workshops for the block
• If you have not already, please submit your
Reminders research block plan to me
Keep in mind Assignment #1C (Data Analysis) is due
Dec. 3, 2023
 • Assignment #1B: November 15th, 2023 by
Upcoming midnight in the Assignments Dropbox
deadlines • Assignment #1C: December 3rd, 2023
 • TA support: book one-on-one appointments (20
minutes, come with questions) using Calendly
links on Pepper
Resources! • Jasmine!
• TA workshops!
• R2 Hub
• Each other!!!
 • Required reading/viewing:
• Leavy, P. (2017). Research design: quantitative,
qualitative, mixed methods, arts-based, and
community-based participatory research
Tasks for approaches . The Guilford Press. P. 145-159
• What is Code? (Qualitative methods modules,
class 8 (Nov. Duke University),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAKRKZq_
20th, 2023) Ebo
• Why Do We Code? Qualitative methods
modules, Duke University)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0usNyQKI
MNU
 • Required reading/viewing:
• Attride-Stirling, J. (2001). Thematic networks an
analytic tool for qualitative research. Qualitative
Research. 1(3): 385-405.
• Saldaña, J. (2009). An introduction to codes and
coding. The coding manual for qualitative
researchers (pp. 1-31, omit CAQDAS and other
References info on pp. 22-27). Sage.
• Quirkos. (2019). Beginners guide to coding
qualitative data [video]
• Recommended reading:
• Nowell, L., Norris, J., White, D., and N. Moules.
(2017). Thematic Analysis: Striving to Meet the
Trustworthiness Criteria. International Journal of
Qualitative Methods, 16, 1-13.