Using Coding Queries and Survey Tools to Illuminate Relationships

Including the HOWUsing Coding Queries and Survey Tools

to Illuminate Relationships

Angie McKinnon CarterLecturer, Utah Valley University

March 22, 2017

Conferencing is something we do, but unexamined, it remains something we do not understand and thus cannot improve.

Laurel Johnson Black

Value of NVivoOffers ways to test

assumptionsSometimes the coding

results surprise us

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Examining Writing ConferencesKnowledge Types

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QuestionsWhich speaker uses which knowledge types

most in the writing conferences?Does the amount of discussion of a certain

knowledge type connect to the amount or types of changes the writer makes?

How does the draft illustrate how well the writer knew how to make changes?

Do the writers understand how to make changes?

To what extent do the changes improve the quality of the paper?

Data Collection

NVivo for TranscriptsTranscribed manually—full transcription with

pauses and time stamps and intonation unitsCodes

SegmentingThematic (for Knowledge Type)

HowWhatOther

Queries

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Page 1 Page 7

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DraftsPre-NVivo

PreparationCompare

Drafts using Word

Create PDFImport into

NVivo

NVivo for DraftsCoding (Coding Stripes and highlighting)

No ChangeChange

Type of Change Level of Change

QueriesDraft change ComparisonChange Draft Full Comparison--Michael and --

Tina (shows # of types of changes and levels of change)

Importing SurveysDirect from Qualtrics

Surveys need to be set up to handle thisParticipants (either ID only or put in

pseudonyms instead of real names)Set up questions to facilitate importing

Import Survey as Excel docWhen downloading from Qualtrics, select

export as Choice Text instead of numeric values

Cleaning up the dataCombine ColumnsRename Columns

Benefits of cleaning up during import to NVivo

Survey DatasetShow columns

“I will make revisions because that’s what the instructor wants.”

“I will make revisions because I want to produce a more quality paper.”

“I actually understood what revisions to make.”

SurveysI actually understand

what revisions to make.

Michael: Strongly agreeTina: Neither Agree nor DisagreeBrian: Strongly AgreeGwen: Strongly Agree

I will make revisions because I want to

produce a more quality paper.

Michael: Strongly AgreeTina: Strongly Agree

Brian: NeutralGwen: Strongly Agree

Illuminating Relationships—Key FeaturesUndockColumn and Row SettingsDouble-click to drill down

ReferencesBlack, L. J. (1998). Between talk and teaching: Reconsidering

the writing conference. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press.

Cabrera, Limarie. Drilling 2. CC by 2.0. Retrieved from Flickr on 29 Nov. 2016. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Rydmark, Pernilla. Jump rope. CC BY-SA 2.0. Retrieved from Flickr on 28 Nov. 2016. https://www.flickr.com/photos/63158617 @N07/7190171420/

Sommers, N. (1980). Revision strategies of student writers and experienced adult writers. College Composition and Communication, 31(4), 378–388.

Teutsch, Brian. The Tina Turners. CC BY 2.0. Retrieved from Flickr on 28 Nov. 2016. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ brianteutsch/203265779/

Including the HOWUsing Coding Queries and Survey Tools

to Illuminate Relationships

Angie McKinnon CarterLecturer, Utah Valley University

March 22, 2017