Dr. Adrian Larbi-Cherif, Cori Egan, & Dr. Joshua L. Glazer—Chapter 17 • Emergent Analysis:
Channel: The After The Interview Project Data Analysis
Date: 2021-06-14

Dr. Adrian Larbi-Cherif, Cori Egan, & Dr. Joshua L. Glazer—Chapter 17 • Emergent Analysis: Strategies for Making Sense of an Evolving Longitudinal Study

The research team discusses their efforts to investigate the Tennessee iZone, a district-led effort to dramatically improve, or “turn around,” 23 of its lowest performing schools. As the research team studied 150+ interviews conducted with leaders and across the district, they discovered their emergent findings did not fit the original research questions. In their chapter, the research team describes how they reanalyzed these data. They discus how they developed new research questions, created a purposeful sample of the original 150+ interviews, recoded the material, and produced a new analysis, without losing methodological rigor. The video concludes with advice to beginning researchers to use formal qualitative methods to learn what the data say, rather than writing up first impressions.

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Research Team Bios

Dr. Larbi-Cherif’s research uses different methodologies to understand what it takes to improve instructional quality and equitable student learning opportunities in large, urban school districts. He is currently examining how school systems can use improvement science and continuous improvement methods to improve instruction and equitable learning opportunities.

Cori Egan is a research associate at the George Washington University’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development. Over the last seven years, she has conducted research into the Tennessee Achievement School District and, more recently, Shelby County Schools’ turnaround district, the Memphis iZone.

Joshua L. Glazer is Associate Professor of Education Policy at George Washington University. Dr. Glazer’s research examines multiple approaches to improving underperforming schools in high-poverty environments. He is coeditor of the book, Choosing Charters: Better Schools or More Segregation?

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Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Research: After the Interview
Table of Contents 

Introduction—Charles Vanover, Paul Mihas, and Johnny Saldaña
Chapter 1 • As a Qualitative Study Unfolds: Shifts in Design and Analysis—Gerardo L. Blanco and Gretchen B. Rossman
Chapter 2 • Using Qualitative Data Analysis Software to Manage the Research Process—Jessica N. Lester and Trena M. Paulus
Chapter 3 • After Someone Else’s Interview—Sheryl L. Chatfield
Chapter 4 • Transcription as a Form of Qualitative Inquiry—Charles Vanover
Chapter 5 • Theories and Practices of Transcription From Discourse Analysis—Mariaelena Bartesaghi
Chapter 6 • Voice to Text: Automating Transcription—Silvana di Gregorio
Chapter 7 • Coding System Design and Management—Daniel Turner
Chapter 8 • Deductive and Inductive Approaches to Qualitative Data Analysis—Andrea J. Bingham and Patricia Witkowsky 
Chapter 9 • Coding, Categorizing, and Theming the Data: A Reflexive Search for Meaning—Janet C. Richards
Chapter 10 • Oral Coding: An Alternative Way to Make Sense of Interview Data—James A. Bernauer
Chapter 11 • Mapping Trajectories: Analyzing Focus Group Data Rhizomatically—Alyson Welker and George Kamberelis
Chapter 12 • Analyzing and Coding Interviews and Focus Groups Considering Cross-Cultural and Cross-Language Data—Elsa M. Gonzalez and Yvonna S. Lincoln
Chapter 13 • On Being a Researcher-Participant: Challenges With the Iterative Process of Data Production, Analysis, and (Re)Production—Craig M. McGill, Drew Puroway, and Mark Duslak
Chapter 14 • Memo Writing Strategies: Analyzing the Parts and the Whole—Paul Mihas
Chapter 15 • Critical Analytic Memoing—Elaine Keane
Chapter 16 • Listening Deeply: Indexing Research Conversations in a Narrative Inquiry—Jaime L. Fiddler
Chapter 17 • Emergent Analysis: Strategies for Making Sense of an Evolving Longitudinal Study—Adrian Larbi-Cherif, Cori Egan, Joshua L. Glazer
Chapter 18 • Making Claims Using Qualitative Data—Tim Huffman
Chapter 19 • Dramatizing Interviews—Johnny Saldaña
Chapter 20 • What Makes an Effective Teacher? Revealing Good Teaching Practice Through Interview Poetic Transcription—Robyn Shenfield and Monica Prendergast
Chapter 21 • Embedding Critical, Creative, and Contemplative Data Analysis in Interview Studies—Kakali Bhattacharya
Chapter 22 • Follow the Headlights: On Comics-Based Data Analysis—Sally Campbell Galman
Chapter 23 • Turning Transcripts Into Stories—Aishath Nasheeda, Haslinda Binti Abdullah, Steven Eric Krauss, Nobaya Binti Ahmed
Chapter 24 • Writing for a Broad Audience: Concept Papers, Blogs, and OpEds—Jessica Smartt Gullion
Chapter 25 • Sophie’s Choices: The Social Act of Publishing a Qualitative Study—Mitchell Allen
Conclusion—Paul Mihas, Johnny Saldaña, and Charles Vanover