Discussion 1: Coding Scholar of Change of Video # 3 (John Anner)
Brief Description of the Video
The scholar of change video (program transcript) was presented by John Anner, a PhD candidate in Public Policy Administration (with concentration on International Non-governmental Organizations. – Walden University.
Over the years, Anner have been
focusing on agricultural problems in Africa and the Caribbean, and later joined the Peace Corps, where he worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in agriculture in Mauritania and West Africa.
Anner has been a
practitioner for almost 30 years and quest to acquire a PhD is to enable him add some intellectual and academic rigor to his work.
He hope to
bring to bear, his knowledge, experience and understanding to build national policy networks targeted at addressing directed social problems.
Coding the Scholar Change
A code in qualitative inquiry is most often a word or a short phrase that symbolically assigns a summative, a summary, a salient or essence-capturing attribute, for some portion of language, or visual data (
Saldana, 2016)
. My coding preference will be the use of the Excel spreadsheet with the labelling of the columns to include; the video code number (under this, I’ll have my notes), the name of the student, gender, program of study, subject matter/topic, what happened in the video (under this I’ll have my transcript which will capture my report content), quick memo.
To demonstrate the first coding, for instance, I’ll have the following; under the column for video code number (I’ll have video #3), the column for the name of the student (I’ll have
John Anner
), under gender column (
male
), program of study (
PhD in Public Policy Administration
), subject matter/topic (
scholar of change
), under the transcript (I’ll have
focused his attention on agricultural problems in Africa and the Caribbean, and later joined the Peace Corps, and worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in agriculture in Mauritania, West Africa;
a practitioner for almost 30 years; his quest to acquire a PhD is to enable him add some intellectual and academic rigor to his work).
Explaining My Choice of Coding
Another attractive aspect of this qualitative coding system is the insertion of a column for
memos
. “Memos are a very important part of qualitative data analysis process because they offer a great platform to put very short notes which can be expanded and placed in in the researcher’s analytic memo notebook” (
Laureate Education - Producer, 2016). Again at periods of data analysis and reflections, a memo will enable the interviewer to
know what part of the text (or the questionnaire) the information came from and what the interviewer was thinking about at that period in time.
References
Anner, J. (2015).
John Anner, PhD student in public policy and administration
[Video file].
Laureate Education (Producer). (2016).
Introduction to coding
[Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Laureate Education (Producer). (2016).
Discussion 1 Coding Scholar of Change of Video # 3 (John Anner) .docx
1. Discussion 1: Coding Scholar of Change of Video # 3 (John
Anner)
Brief Description of the Video
The scholar of change video (program transcript) was presented
by John Anner, a PhD candidate in Public Policy Administration
(with concentration on International Non--governmental
Organizations. – Walden University.
Over the years, Anner have been
focusing on agricultural problems in Africa and the Caribbean,
and later joined the Peace Corps, where he worked as a Peace
Corps volunteer in agriculture in Mauritania and West Africa.
Anner has been a
practitioner for almost 30 years and quest to acquire a PhD is to
enable him add some intellectual and academic rigor to his
work.
He hope to
bring to bear, his knowledge, experience and understanding to
build national policy networks targeted at addressing directed
social problems.
Coding the Scholar Change
A code in qualitative inquiry is most often a word or a short
phrase that symbolically assigns a summative, a summary, a
salient or essence--capturing attribute, for some portion of
language, or visual data (
Saldana, 2016)
. My coding preference will be the use of the Excel spreadsheet
with the labelling of the columns to include; the video code
number (under this, I’ll have my notes), the name of the
student, gender, program of study, subject matter/topic, what
happened in the video (under this I’ll have my transcript which
will capture my report content), quick memo.
To demonstrate the first coding, for instance, I’ll have the
following; under the column for video code number (I’ll have
video #3), the column for the name of the student (I’ll have
2. John Anner
), under gender column (
male
), program of study (
PhD in Public Policy Administration
), subject matter/topic (
scholar of change
), under the transcript (I’ll have
focused his attention on agricultural problems in Africa and the
Caribbean, and later joined the Peace Corps, and worked as a
Peace Corps volunteer in agriculture in Mauritania, West
Africa;
a practitioner for almost 30 years; his quest to acquire a PhD is
to enable him add some intellectual and academic rigor to his
work).
Explaining My Choice of Coding
Another attractive aspect of this qualitative coding system is the
insertion of a column for
memos
. “Memos are a very important part of qualitative data analysis
process because they offer a great platform to put very short
notes which can be expanded and placed in in the researcher’s
analytic memo notebook” (
Laureate Education - Producer, 2016). Again at periods of data
analysis and reflections, a memo will enable the interviewer to
know what part of the text (or the questionnaire) the
information came from and what the interviewer was thinking
about at that period in time.
References
Anner, J. (2015).
John Anner, PhD student in public policy and administration
[Video file].
Laureate Education (Producer). (2016).
Introduction to coding
[Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
3. Laureate Education (Producer). (2016).
From content to coding
[Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Saldaña, J. (2016).
The coding manual for qualitative researchers
(3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
![John Anner
), under gender column (
male
), program of study (
PhD in Public Policy Administration
), subject matter/topic (
scholar of change
), under the transcript (I’ll have
focused his attention on agricultural problems in Africa and the
Caribbean, and later joined the Peace Corps, and worked as a
Peace Corps volunteer in agriculture in Mauritania, West
Africa;
a practitioner for almost 30 years; his quest to acquire a PhD is
to enable him add some intellectual and academic rigor to his
work).
Explaining My Choice of Coding
Another attractive aspect of this qualitative coding system is the
insertion of a column for
memos
. “Memos are a very important part of qualitative data analysis
process because they offer a great platform to put very short
notes which can be expanded and placed in in the researcher’s
analytic memo notebook” (
Laureate Education - Producer, 2016). Again at periods of data
analysis and reflections, a memo will enable the interviewer to
know what part of the text (or the questionnaire) the
information came from and what the interviewer was thinking
about at that period in time.
References
Anner, J. (2015).
John Anner, PhD student in public policy and administration
[Video file].
Laureate Education (Producer). (2016).
Introduction to coding
[Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)