Major Assignment 2: The Analysis and Interpretation of Qualitative Data

For this Major Assignment 2, you will continueyour work on the Part 3: Results section. Specifically, you will beginyour analysis and prepare your presentation of your results from yourthree data sources. The three data sources include:

• Two Scholars of Change videos
• Phone interview
• Resources from the Walden social change website

Analyze and prepare your presentation ofresults from your three data sources. Also, part of your analysis is tocreate categories and themes of your findings.

To prepare for this Assignment:

• Review this week’s Learning Resources to guide you as you analyze and prepare your presentation of results.
• Analyze the three data sources to create categories and themes of your findings
  • Two Scholars of Change videos
  • Phone interview
  • Resources from the Walden social change website
• Once you have completed your analysis, prepare your presentation of results from your three data sources.

Part 3: Results

During this course, you have coded your twoScholars of Change videos, you have conducted and coded your phoneinterview, and you have gathered data from the Walden social changewebsite and any other documents or websites you might have included. Forthis Part 3 of your Major Assignment, you will write up the results ofyour findings. You will include the following in your write-up:

1. Data Sources—briefly describe each data source including location,duration of data collection, how data were recorded, and unusualcircumstances.
   • Two Scholars of Change videos
   • One phone interview
   • Resources from the Walden social change website
2. Instrumentation—briefly describe the type of instrumentation you used for your data collection.
   1. Who developed each data collection tool and what is the date of publication?
   2. Where and with which participant group has it been used previously?
   3. How appropriate is it for current study and include whether modifications will be or were needed?
3. Data Analysis—based on the data sources in “A.”, provide a detailed analysis to include the following:
   • Report the process used to move inductively from coded units to larger representations including categories and themes.
   • Describe the specific codes, categories, and themes that emergedfrom the data using quotations as needed to emphasize their importance.
     1. 1st cycle—describe, give examples.
     2. 2nd cycle—describe, give examples/moving from codes to categories.
     3. Identify themes—provide examples and illustrate your results with a figure or a chart.

No Assignment submission for this week.

SubmitParts 1 (completed in Week 5), 2 (completed in Week 6), 3 (completed inWeeks 7–9), and 4 (completed in Week 10) of your Major Assignment 2 by Day 7 of Week 10.