analysis notes - phase 2

Starting a second cycle of coding on the first of three sets of data. Initial coding interspersed with some InVivo Coding and Versus coding was used in first cycle.

Codes were transposed into a spreadsheet and then colour coded using a focused coding (Charmaz, 2006) approach.

The categories thus far are:

• People (who are connected with a project such as steering group, audience etc)
• changing nature of projects; contextual factors
• project management information
• issues or challenges
• tame taken or timing
• types of evaluation or evaluand
• perceptions, affective language, emotions, conceptions
• communications
• quality

Another option for 2nd cycle coding is Elaborative coding (Auerbach & Silverstein, 2003). In this approach, findings from previous research can be supported, strengthened, modified or disconfirmed (Saldana 2013). If I use this, I can work with the first phase findings which unveiled 4 themes from across the 15 completed L&T projects: conflation between research and evaluation; capability building in evaluation; resources (time and money) and an action approach to evaluation.

At this point I will start with Focused coding and perhaps simultaneously note if any other previous themes appear in the current data set.

Once I complete this with the first set of data I can separately work on the 2nd and 3rd data sets (projects/ case studies). Then using Case Study methods I can compare and contrast  findings from each case.