Teaching Qualitative Data Analysis to Graduate Students

Journal article

This article reports the author’s experience teaching sociology graduate students howto analyze qualitative data. The course focused on teaching practical skills of defining coding categories, coding text, analyzing coded text, and writing up the results of analysis. The assignments used Qualrus software to give students hands-on practice doing all of these. The course was enthusiastically received and will become a permanent part of the sociology methods course offerings at American University.

Authors: Blank, G

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Journal: Social Science Computer Review
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 187-196
• Publication date: 2004-05-01
• DOI: 10.1177/0894439303262559
• EISSN: 1552-8286
• ISSN: 0894-4393
• Keywords: qualitative data analysis; teaching; coding; Qualrus; SBTMR