Making Sense of Data

How Public Health Graduate Students Build Theory Through Qualitative Research Techniques

Bibliographic Data

ID5454838
AuthorsMary C Wright (0000-0002-9422-2522, University of Michigan, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume17
Issue1
Pages94-101
Publication date2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1049732306294296
PMID17170247
OpenAlexW2128749279
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited10

Data interpretation and theory building are two key skills often taught in health sciences qualitative methods courses. However, little is known about how novice researchers make sense of data, as well as how their thought processes differ from those of expert researchers. In this classroom research project, the author explores how qualitative methods students in a public health graduate program describe their processes of making sense of data and building theory. She then compares these processes with 'expert' guidelines to draw implications for how to enhance teaching in a qualitative research class

Graduate students · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Qualitative property · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Applications · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Statistics Education and Methodologies