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• The chapter IV of a research paper is Presentation, Analysis and Interpretation of Data
• The researchers may present the gathered data through thematic analysis in tabular form
• Caulfield (2017) defined thematicanalysis as a method of analyzing qualitative data that usually applied to a set of texts, such as interview transcripts.
• The researcher closely examines the data to identify common themes - topics, ideas and patterns of meaning that come up repeatedly.
• All of your work setting up the proposal and collecting data has been leading to the interpretation of your findings.
• Summary of Findings - summarizes the interpretation of data based on the results and discussion of the study
• Insights and Implications of the Study - based on the summary of findings

  • Sachdev (2017) discussed that the research implications basically refer to impact that your research might have on future researcher or policy decision or the relevant field of interest of your study
  • These are basically the conclusions that you draw from your results and explain how the findings may be important for policy, practice, or theory
• Research Instrument - A tool used to gather data for research

  • you can use interview questionnaire as your instrument
• Data Gathering Procedure - narrates the process undergone by the study that eventually leads to the findings
• Data Analysis - describes how you will analyze your gathered data

  • In qualitative, thematic analysis is most commonly used process in analyzing data
  • uses participant's responses, identify its meaning until themes emerge from the data
• Locale of the Study - identifies and describes briefly the location where the stuy is conducted
• Participants/Respondents of the Study - The people who are involved in the study.
• Sampling Technique/Source of Data - discusses the process of selecting the participants/respondents of the study

  2 types of sampling method

  • Probability Sampling - involves random selection, allowing you to make statistical inferences about the whole group
  • Non probability Sampling - involves noon random selection based on convenience or other criteria, allowing you to collect initial data

  In qualitative research, purposive sampling technique is used where inclusion criteria is set before a certain participant is chosen to ensure that the data to be gathered are reliable
• Types of Qualitative Study

  • Grounded Theory
  • Phenemenological Study
  • Ethnographic Study
  • Case Study
  • Historical Study
  • Discourse Analysis
• Grounded Theory

  Uses primarily interviews and existing documents to build a theory based on the data
• Phenemenological Study

  Explores the lives experiences of the participants on how they feel about things
• Ethnographic Study

  Immerses the researcher to learn and describe the cultures characteristics
• Case Study

  Provides an in depth lookk at one test subject where the subject can be a person or family
• Historical Study

  Describes past events
• Discourse Analysis

  Considers large discourse context in order to understand how it affects the meaning of the sentence
• Research Design - discusses the research approach you used in the study