Qualitative analysis of interview transcript

For this discussion, you will be working independently and in small online-groups to analyze an interview transcript. Once the groups have come to agreement about the analysis, one person from the group will need to post the group’s final analysis to this discussion forum. Be sure to begin this exercise early since you need time for your individual work, your group discussion, and the final posting of the group’s analysis. See the syllabus for group-work timeframes. This is a graded discussion forum worth 3 assignment points. (The interview transcript and coding guidance mentioned below are also available in the Week 4 Documents folder.) An interview transcript has been uploaded here to this forum upon which you will be doing qualitative analysis. After you have downloaded the transcript, do a “save as” and save the document with your name in the document title. You have all been assigned to small groups for this exercise/assignment. You will see a group-specific Discussion thread for Week 4, separate from this discussion thread. Each person in the group should independently code the interview transcript that they have downloaded and saved with their name. (More details on coding and themes are in the uploaded guidance document.) After, or while, coding, each person should create (in a separate document) a list of themes they identify from the codes. For each theme, give it a brief name and a one-sentence description. Then, using the separate Week 4 discussion thread for your group, each person uploads their coded transcript and list of themes to the group.