The clickable blue circle embedded in the text shows the descriptive coding of that particular section. This layer of analysis could be done simultaneously with the focused coding, but it is useful to distinguish the analytical from the descriptive codes here.
Here the far-left column is for codes at a higher level of abstraction than the middle column. In the following examples, I re-coded segments of two Italian interviews with codes focused on the theme of "immigrant woman's self identity." Focused Coding, Example 1 This coding manual leverages the benefits of a mixed-methods approach by coding qualitative observations for quantitative analysis, and may provide other researchers with a framework for coding attention to mathematical features in a play context and developing manuals for analyzing other aspects of parent-child interaction.In focused coding, the researcher re-codes the transcripts guided by a specific thematic issue. The coding scheme served as a framework for our recent report on the frequency of parents' and children's attention to mathematical features and the association between parents' and children's attention to these features (Chan et al., 2020). The reliability analyses on verbal communication also illustrated the Kappa paradox-in our case, the high proportion of feature mentions led to a low value of Cohen's Kappa even when the percent agreement and Gwet's Agreement Coefficient 1 were high. Codes for nonverbal behaviors were less reliable and may require further development to improve reliability. Analyses of independent coding by two coders indicated that we reliably coded instances of attending to mathematical features and the ways in which dyads talked about these features. Through analysis of videotapes and transcripts of parent-child play sessions, we coded these verbal communications as questions, responses, mentions, or repetitions and coded corresponding nonverbal support as either explicit, implicit, or irrelevant to the mathematical features coded. We operationalized attention to mathematical features as instances during which parents or children made verbal references to quantitative (i.e., number, quantity, part-whole relations) or spatial (e.g., size, shape, spatial location, positional orientation) features. This coding manual was created to quantify and characterize the ways in which parents and their preschool children attend to mathematical features during play.
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