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Using Digital Technology To Address Confirmability And Scalability In Thematic Analysis Of Participant-Provided Data, Chung Joo Chung, J. Patrick Biddix, Han Woo Park

The Qualitative Report

This article presents a technique for analyzing large-scale qualitative data to address considerations for scalability and confirmability in thematic analysis of participant-provided data. A network approach provides a consistent means of coding that scales with the size of the dataset and is verifiable using standardized methods. This form of data analysis can be used with smaller data sources including interview transcripts as well as large data sources such as open-ended survey responses. A constructivist (inductive) approach is maintained and needed, however, to aid in interpretation of latent constructs. In this article, we provide both a conceptual overview of the co-word …

An Examination Of The Role Of Social Support, Coping Strategies, And Individual Characteristics In Students’ Adaptation To College, Arleen Bejerano

Department of Communication Studies: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Adaptation, or adjustment, is a psycho-social process that occurs when an individual accepts and integrates into his or her life a transition from one situation to another situation (Schlossberg, 1981). Many individuals struggle with transitions because transitions involve changes in the environment, roles, routines, and/or ways of looking at the world. The present investigation examines the transition from high school to college, and explores the interpersonal and individual ways that students manage the changes accompanying this transition. Using Transition Theory as a framework, students’ social support networks, coping strategies, self-esteem, and depression are posited to influence students’ adaptation to college …

Hollins Student Life (1928 Oct 30), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

vol. 1, no. 2 (Oct 30, 1928)

Table of Contents:

• Industrial Girls Give Report on Summer School and Conference: Dr. Palmer Makes a Short Talk
• Smith Wins Hollins Straw Vote
• Concert by Louise Stallings, Mezzo Soprano, at Hollins
• Halloween Party Plans are Made
• Freya Honors Six Outstanding Students
• The Real Test
• The Coming Election
• Alumnae Notes
• Student Forum
• An Interview with Mr. Turner
• Editor of Student Life Presents Plans of Publication
• Miss Dilla Conducts Twenty Persons on Seventh Annual European Tour
• Discuss Workings of Hollins Book Club
• Hollins Waiters Hurt in Crash
• Sport Lights
• Beautiful Doll Type of Girl Has …

Hollins Student Life (1928 Oct 6), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

• vol. 1, no. 1 (Oct 6, 1928)

Table of Contents:

• Dr. Francis Gaines Addresses Students at Session Opening
• First Honor Group Announced by Dean
• Y. W. Entertains with a Carnival
• Hockey Season is Now in Full Swing
• Formal Opening of Student Government
• Public Opinion
• A Toast to Freshmen
• Student Forum
• Student Life to Conduct Straw Vote
• New Teachers Added
• Photos of: Alice Robinson, Nancy Moore, Virginia Egolf, Matty L. Cocke, Virginia McClamrock, Nancy Lea, Margaret Bowles, and Sally Barrett
• Photomontage with caption: The Outstanding Costumes at the Y. W. Party
• Dramatics
• "The Patriot" is Appreciated Here
• Possibility of Doing Shakespeare …