Content analysis & thematic analysis

Design a study to investigate students’ experiences of online learning.

In your answer you will gain credit for providing appropriate details of the following:

• the type of self-report technique that will be used, with justification

• an example of one relevant question that could be used to collect qualitative data, with justification

• how you would ensure the ethical treatment of participants

• how content analysis could be used to analyse the qualitative data.

Explain how the researcher could have used content analysis to analyse the parents’ diaries.

The researcher was concerned about the reliability of the content analysis.

How might the researcher have assessed the reliability of the content analysis in this study?

Patients with depression were asked to keep a daily diary of their experiences as part of their therapy. Two researchers analysed the same extracts from the diaries using content analysis.

What is content analysis?

Explain one way in which the researchers could have used content analysis to analyse diary extracts in this investigation.

The two researchers’ analyses of the diary extracts were found to be quite different.

Explain how the reliability of this content analysis could be improved.

Another researcher, who did not know the purpose of the study, carried out a content analysis of the interview data.

Explain how this content analysis could have been conducted.

The psychologist wanted to assess the reliability of the content analysis.

Explain how the reliability of the content analysis could be assessed.

Explain how the psychologist could continue her investigation by carrying out thematic analysis of the interview recordings.

Explain how the psychologist could continue her investigation by carrying out thematic analysis of the interview recordings.

Explain how the psychologist could continue her investigation by carrying out thematic analysis of the interview recordings.