PhD Final Thesis April 2013.pdf - Anglia Ruskin Research Online

Thesis Keith Gale 2013• Filtering of stop words indicates a high level of considered responses asremaining words are close grouped with appropriate use of technicallanguage.• The most frequent 100 words are closely arranged into a relatively smallnumber of themes which indicate a high correlation between individuals.• As the results are closely arranged it can be assumed that interviews wereconsistently applied and questions understood by participants.Confidence from word frequency analysis allows a secondary stage of qualitativeinvestigation to be undertaken.10.6.2 Nodes, classifications and free codingExamination of interview transcripts along with word frequency allows constructionof node creation from key statements made by participants. For example, the node ofcommunication arose because it appeared in the work frequency analysis and formeda significant response from an interviewee. NVivo 9.2 was used to highlight the nodeand the text concerning communication together with the extent measured bypercentage of overall response. Coding of all of the transcriptions allows frequencyof themes to be aggregated and compared to total response values. Initial codingadopted a free node approach (where no connections between themes wererecognised) as a first pass of analysis. An example of free coding for interviewnumber 1 is shown in Figure 10.2.235