Data analysis and findings Sample Clauses

Data analysis and findings. Introduction This chapter will present the findings from the data analysis from both the online survey and semi-structured interviews that sought to understand how play was supported in state kindergartens of Xxx-Xxxxxx from the perspectives of early childhood educators. The sub-questions of the main research question explored educators’ freedom and flexibility in their teaching practices, their beliefs about play and learning, the role of the educator in play, the play environment, types of play, and opportunities provided for play. This chapter will first present the analysis of the survey data and then the analysis of the interview data, and will illustrate how these data can be triangulated against each other, as well as against selected theories mentioned in the literature review chapter.

Data analysis and findings. Table 1 - Firms overview. All interviews were tape-recorded and then transcribed. Durations of the interviews were between one hour and one hour and a half, producing an audio material of 305 minutes in total. In addition to the interviews secondary data, such as website pages and documentations, was collected. The data were encoded and structured into “projects” using the software NVivo 10 following a grounded theory approach (Xxxxxxx 1987; Xxxxxx 1992) that aims at finding properties or links between data. The coding procedure was done as follows: first, in order to mitigate potential bias, a master student (first coder) who had not taken part in the interviews read and coded the interview transcripts by identifying text passages that included information about the constructs emerged from the literature. Following the coding of the first coder, another master student (second coder), likewise, coded the transcripts. The comparison of the two coding resulted above inter-coder reliability threshold defined by Xxxxxx (1969). The two coders then examined the mismatched coding and agreed on a final coding matrix that was used for the data analysis.