Month: February 2025

Enhance Your Coding System with Further Rounds of Qualitative Coding

Tonight’s Delve video on qualitative research and coding focused on further rounds of qualitative coding. This two-minute video reviewed codes and improved the code classification system. The session began by noting that while you are grouping codes into themes, you can also review the codes used. When using coding software such as Delve, you can […]
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Organizing Codes in Qualitative Research

The Delve YouTube video I watched tonight was on “Deriving Themes from Qualitative Data.” In this seven minute session, they demonstrated reviewing codes and organizing them under themes. While the themes may seem like simply another code, they should connect related codes to help summarize emerging themes. Adding descriptions to the themes helps organize them […]
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Deductive and Inductive Coding

Tonight I watched a Delve video on deductive and inductive approaches to qualitative coding. The short video (2 minutes) was packed with information. They defined deductive coding as a top down approach that starts off with a set of codes based on a research question or framework. Examples of deductive coding mentioned were structural coding […]
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Mastering Grounded Theory: Steps in Qualitative Coding

I want to learn more about qualitative data analysis and coding. Yesterday, I found the Delve YouTube Channel, and today I continued watching videos. The short but dense “What is Open, Axial, and Selective Coding?” video introduced terms I wasn’t aware of! Open coding, axial coding, and selective coding are steps that are interconnected in […]
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Understanding Qualitative Coding with Delve

Tonight I watched an older webinar from Delve. LaiYee Ho is the co-founder of Delve, online software for coding qualitative data. The title of the session was “Introduction to Coding Qualitative Data with Delve.” They emphasized that there are different ways to code. They defined qualitative coding as “a process of taking unstructured data and […]
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Key Features of Mixed Methods Explained

Tonight I watched a MAXQDA session by Timothy C. Gutterman from the Mixed Methods Program at the University of Michigan. Gutterman does research and serves as the editor for the mixed methods journal. Based on Creswell and Plano Clark 2018, there are five features of mixed methods. Mixed methods collect and analyze qualitative and quantitative […]
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Analyzing Student Preparation Strategies for Success

Tonight I watched JMBE Live! Heather Bergan-Roller, Tina Ballard, and Jaime Sabel presented the work they are doing. Ballard spoke about how students may note be prepared for class. They noted that sometimes instructors assign readings but these may not be completed before the session. Ballard shared that research has found that outside and in […]
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