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To interpret your findings, you need to ask yourself questions like:
The fundamental question is ‘So what?’. You need to decide
on what your findings mean by reminding yourself of your
original research question(s) and your motivation for doing
your research. For example, in the case of the above data,
if the teacher’s research question was ‘Do students find
group work beneficial?’, the answer seems to be clearly
‘Yes’, at least for these students. If other students in the
same class give similar answers she may interpret this as
a clear signal to carry on using group work.
Task 6.3 @
Try to give codes to some more qualitative data, seeing
what similarities can be identified. This time, also try to
interpret the findings in relation to a particular research
question.
Here are eight different students’ answers during a class
discussion about the teacher’s main concern and research
question, ‘Should I [the teacher] use the students’ mother
tongue – Spanish – in the classroom?’ (The teacher
recorded this discussion and wrote down the individual
students’ answers while listening to the recording later).
Try to give a keyword or keywords to each statement. Then
see whether any similarities (categories) emerge. Finally,
write a few sentences summarizing what you think the
findings say about whether the teacher should use Spanish.
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