How to analyze data?

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The researcher needs to analyze if the type of information s/he has corresponds to qualitative or quantitative. After, s/he needs to go back to the data collection instruments and decide upon the analysis method that best suit the data. Burns (2010) mentions that the main tools for analyzing and synthesizing qualitative data are a) categorizing: sorting objects into logical groups and developing then a well-structured theoretical framework that explains the phenomena under study, and b) analyzing talk: examining the spoken interaction.

In addition, this author refers to numerical scales and descriptive statistics as the main tools for analyzing quantitative data. However; some researchers might also opt for inferential statistics to take into account correlations, differences between the means obtained, and the analysis of the variance.

The table below provides an overview of the data collection instruments used, they type of data collected, the nature of the data and the method that will be used to analyze the information.

Please click here to have access to the rubric used to assess the students' production resulting from completing the graphic organizers.


Reference
Burns, A. (2010). Doing Action Research in English Language Teaching. New York: Routledge.