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Integrative procedures

6 important questions on Integrative procedures

What aspects should be mentioned in the introduction of paper?

·What has already been researched?
·Why have we studied this?
-putting it into broader context first
-mentioning the relevance
· mention it if you're addressing a gap
·What is the goal of your own study (research questions)
-Make the research question clear by defining the concepts
·methodology/ data analysis you’re going to use and the sample very briefly

How can visuals be useful in the integration of the data?

1.creating visuals can raise awareness about the possible gaps in the available knowledge and stimulate to think about how to fill these gaps
2.maps and diagrams can help develop interpretations.
link2 can be added to the final report to illustrate the structure of the findings

What is the most important question you have to ask yourself when you make a code?

What is the meaning of what the participants tlel me?

Someone is trying to connect different themes in their research. In which phase of the data analysis are they now?

integration part/ selective coding

Two aspects you have to be aware of when analyzing data of a focus group

the specific group composition as well as the individuals finding their own meaning within the group.

What does the intragroup analysis of data in a focus group refer to?

the effects of group compositions and characters (size of the group, people who are talkative) and when a theme dominates the discussion it could be a really important theme or it could be an artifact of the method used and that needs to be considered in the analysis)