Qualitative Coding with Children’s Literature: An Exercise Using The Three Little Pigs

Abstract

This qualitative coding and analysis resource is designed to provide a group hands-on learning opportunity for undergraduate students, primarily in the social sciences, to develop their skills for coding qualitative data and developing a qualitative data analysis and interpretation. The data comes from a well-known children’s story, The Three Little...

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Details

Subject Area(s):

Qualitative Methodology

Resource Type(s):

Class Activity

Class Level(s):

College 300

Class Size(s):

Small

Usage Notes

This exercise was designed for an undergraduate sociology course with fewer than 30 students enrolled. Students are typically juniors and seniors with a major or minor in the social sciences. This exercise is ideal for a methods course, but can be modified to introduce qualitative data and analysis in non-methods courses. As the exercise unfolds,...

Learning Goals and Assessments

Learning Goal(s):

1. Goal 1. Students will recall the process of qualitative data analysis.
2. Goal 2. Students will demonstrate their analytic skills by coding and analyzing a provided set of data.
3. Goal 3. Students will increase their comfort levels with qualitative data analysis.

Goal Assessment(s):

1. Assessment 1. Goal 1 is assessed through a pre-exercise class review that includes identification ofkey concepts and ideas from an assigned reading.
2. Goal 2 is assessed through student completion of the seven stages in the coding and analysis process. Before moving to the next stage, students must complete a one-minute check with the professor that includes a review of their progress and questions.
3. Goal 3is assessed through student responses during an in-class discussion about personal issues and comfort with qualitative data analysis before, during, and after the exercise.