Data Analysis After Cookies: Understanding College Students’ Transition Experiences
Location
1053
Format Type
Event
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
January 2018
End Date
January 2018
Abstract
The transformation as a qualitative researcher is a sweet journey. Specifically, employing an embodiment approach to data analysis allows researchers to experience the data more holistically, such as through taste and discomfort (Law, 2004). This session will share the tale of data analysis through the consumption of cookies to interact with the data and incorporate a way of knowing through emotions.
Transitions ensue when learning, growth, and development occurs in an individual. As such, college students encounter a multitude and magnitude of transitions throughout their college experience (Chickering, 1994). Each transition is complex, comprising of factors that influence how an individual reacts and copes with the transitions (Goodman, Schlossberg, & Anderson, 2006). Similarly, making cookies is a complex process that incorporates multiple ingredients, strategies, and steps to produce the cookie itself. The parallels between transitions and cookie making serves as a lens to analyze exploratory interviews to understand college students’ transition, specifically, the change of major transition. The consumption of cookies resulted in an experience with the data that consumes and understands the experiences of the participants. This session will share how the data analysis process was managed to understand the data and produced results that created a personal connection. Lastly, this session will discuss implications and reflections about the data analysis process and how it will inform future research practices.
References:
Chickering, A. W. (1994). Empowering lifelong self-development. NACADA Journal, 14, 50-53.
Goodman, J., Schlossberg, N. K., & Anderson, M. (2006). Counseling adults in transitions: Linking practice with theory. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
Law, J. (2004). After method: Mess in social science research. (pp. 1-17) London: Routledge.
Data Analysis After Cookies: Understanding College Students’ Transition Experiences
1053
The transformation as a qualitative researcher is a sweet journey. Specifically, employing an embodiment approach to data analysis allows researchers to experience the data more holistically, such as through taste and discomfort (Law, 2004). This session will share the tale of data analysis through the consumption of cookies to interact with the data and incorporate a way of knowing through emotions.
Transitions ensue when learning, growth, and development occurs in an individual. As such, college students encounter a multitude and magnitude of transitions throughout their college experience (Chickering, 1994). Each transition is complex, comprising of factors that influence how an individual reacts and copes with the transitions (Goodman, Schlossberg, & Anderson, 2006). Similarly, making cookies is a complex process that incorporates multiple ingredients, strategies, and steps to produce the cookie itself. The parallels between transitions and cookie making serves as a lens to analyze exploratory interviews to understand college students’ transition, specifically, the change of major transition. The consumption of cookies resulted in an experience with the data that consumes and understands the experiences of the participants. This session will share how the data analysis process was managed to understand the data and produced results that created a personal connection. Lastly, this session will discuss implications and reflections about the data analysis process and how it will inform future research practices.
References:
Chickering, A. W. (1994). Empowering lifelong self-development. NACADA Journal, 14, 50-53.
Goodman, J., Schlossberg, N. K., & Anderson, M. (2006). Counseling adults in transitions: Linking practice with theory. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
Law, J. (2004). After method: Mess in social science research. (pp. 1-17) London: Routledge.
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