Lincoln Education Action Research Network (LEARN)

 
Here are the slides from our session on analysing and interpreting data, in which we discussed:
 

• what ‘data’ is and can comprise of in action research (see Pine 2009, Chapter 11 for inspiration)

 

• what sort of data is useful for answering your practical and intellectual questions

 

• when and why we might not use certain kinds of data — in particular the uses and misuses of statistical measures

 

• what it means to make an ‘informed claim’ to knowledge when data are not complete or representative

 

• how to weave different kinds of data together or examine them with different methods

 

• what it means to ‘code’ texts, and different approaches for doing so.