Educational Research Methods
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Data analysis
Once data has been collected, it needs to be analysed.
The nature of data analysis is different in interpretivist studies working with qualitative data, and confirmatory research working with quantitive data.
The first stage in data analysis, is usually coding, but how that is undertaken, and the subsequent steps, tend to be quite different in these two forms of research.
Many kinds of research collect qualitative data of different kinds, and there are various approaches to qualitative data analysis depending upon research purposes and the nature of the data. Sometimes analytical pluralism, applying several analytical ‘lenses’ to the same data set, is appropriate.
This is a personal site of Keith S. Taber to support teaching of educational research methods.
(Dr Keith Taber is Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.)
2015-2016
