Today’s Plan:
- Coding Job Ads
- For Next Class (B&L, 10 Jobs
What is Coding?
In qualitative research, “coding” refers to a systematized method of tracking terms and ideas that appear across a large body (a corpus) of texts. Generally, researchers approach the corpus with a pre-determined list of ideas, which is reflexively revised and expanded as researchers begin to analyze it. I entered this research using B&L’s coding scheme, and along the way altered it so that it looks like this:
You can see that the scheme has 3 primary categories of codes: Tools and Technologies, Professional Competencies, and Personal Characteristics. Under those headings, there’s a number of different concepts. Each concept has a two or three letter abbreviation (its code).
I’d like to take sometime in class to practice coding a few sample job ads.
For Next Class
We will not be meeting on Fridays. You should take that time to read Brumberger and Lauer assignment and complete the corresponding Canvas assignment.
Also, if you have not already, make sure you email me your intro and question. I’ll open Monday’s class responding to these.
Finally, I’d like to direct your attention to the Job corpus. I’d like you to go through it and select 10 jobs. You will start coding these jobs next week.
It makes sense if you select ten jobs with similar requirements. To do this, it might help to check a job’s classification in the Collective spreadsheet.
