Title
Coda: A Way to Portray Qualitative Researcher
Location
1048
Format Type
Event
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
January 2018
End Date
January 2018
Abstract
This presentation aimed to share CODA experiences of a research team in a mathematics education research. The research team composed of four researchers whose positions vary on the insider-outsider continuum with respect to the data. While one researcher prepared data collection tools, collected data and analyzed the data with the research team, two of them produced the data which was analyzed. On the other hand, the fourth researcher’s first interaction with the data was at analysis process. After working together on data analysis process for three months, they constructed CODA around the question of “What do you expect to read in the final paper of this research, particularly about data analysis process in which we all were involved and the findings we reached?” Based on researchers’ expressions in CODA, we, in this presentation, address the following research questions: How much do researchers want their experiences to be included in research papers? What research practices do they value and so want to be shared in research papers? Thus, we will present Qualitative Researcher Portraits present in this research. Specifically, we will discuss (i) whether researchers only value content related findings, (ii) whether they also value the process of how these findings are articulated, and (iii) whether they want to share the changes of their interpretation or only the latest and finest interpretation, and what these preferences imply to us about qualitative researchers’ portrait, which we think that is important to understand the phenomenology of qualitative research, TQR 9th Annual Conference theme.
Coda: A Way to Portray Qualitative Researcher
1048
This presentation aimed to share CODA experiences of a research team in a mathematics education research. The research team composed of four researchers whose positions vary on the insider-outsider continuum with respect to the data. While one researcher prepared data collection tools, collected data and analyzed the data with the research team, two of them produced the data which was analyzed. On the other hand, the fourth researcher’s first interaction with the data was at analysis process. After working together on data analysis process for three months, they constructed CODA around the question of “What do you expect to read in the final paper of this research, particularly about data analysis process in which we all were involved and the findings we reached?” Based on researchers’ expressions in CODA, we, in this presentation, address the following research questions: How much do researchers want their experiences to be included in research papers? What research practices do they value and so want to be shared in research papers? Thus, we will present Qualitative Researcher Portraits present in this research. Specifically, we will discuss (i) whether researchers only value content related findings, (ii) whether they also value the process of how these findings are articulated, and (iii) whether they want to share the changes of their interpretation or only the latest and finest interpretation, and what these preferences imply to us about qualitative researchers’ portrait, which we think that is important to understand the phenomenology of qualitative research, TQR 9th Annual Conference theme.
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