Enhancing your publishing opportunities: Tips on how to conceptualise NVivo into your higher degree study

MAUREEN O’NEILL THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST FACULTY OF SCIENCE, HEALTH, EDUCATION AND ENGINEERING

M Y S T O R Y ….MUM, TEACHER AND RESEARCHER FACT ….17 SCHOOL - AGE HIGH PERFORMANCE ATHLETES ON THE AUSTRALIAN TEAM AT THE 2012 LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES(AOC, 2012)

Where to Begin?

 The first step is to be aware of Five major ‘lifesaving’ tips : 1. There is no right answer 2. There is no right code 3. Ask yourself constantly “Is this a sort of”? In category /sub category 4. Merge nodes to extrapolate higher order themes 5. Design names of nodes initially outside the program- usual grammatical punctuation such as: ?, - / \ can not be used.

Introduction

 Successful research using qualitative data relies on the rigour and thoroughness of the data analysis methods.  Richards (2002) suggests that it is feasible to achieve:  Transparency  Rigour  Rapidity and  Reliability of qualitative data by being ‘assisted by ‘tools’ in the ‘tool kit’ of NVivo How the NVivo picture was built in my study

The first two stages and processes of how my project used NVivo™ to be outlined in this eSeminar are as follows: Stages of NVivo Processes involved in each stage Stage 1: Descriptive Project details and research design Sources Attributes Values Classifications

Stage 2: Topic Finding the obvious topics Creating initial nodes Stage 1: Descriptive

TO COMMENCE DESIGN AND DETAILS: QUALITATIVE, INTERPRETIVE STUDY DEFINITION : HIGH PERFORMANCE SCHOOL - AGE ATHLETES 3 GROUPS OF PARTICIPANTS: ATHLETES ( 1 9 ) - CURRENT AND FORMER , PARENTS ( 1 0 ) A N D TEACHERS ( 1 0 ) .

INTEGRATED: THE USE OF OTHER SOFTWARE Concept maps and constructs were originally created for the ‘athlete’ participants follows: Sample of some of the 39 participant’s code spread sheet

Code dimension/ Celia(15) Zac(17) Kylie Lee Destiny Annette Jodie Phil(17) prob/need

Homework school/need * * motivation Home/prob * * * inspiration individual/p * rob tiredness individual/p * * * * * * * * rob exhaustion Individual/p * * rob From constructing these code sheets, the initial constructs commenced, seen as: Constructs Homework-weekends used to complete school work long hours dedicated to homework diminish amount of homework complete only essential non-completion of homework homework and subjects avoidance of homework

Mental issue-Motivation confidence passion anxiety routines prioritis relaxation focus ation inspiration

physical issue-inspiration fatigue and recovery awareness bullying mindset self-identity dedicated tiredness rest practice exhaustion sleep

struggle of the long training heavy training schedule hours

social issues-sacrifices-no social life pressure to be social prejudices social media outlets limit friends to training compromise members loss of school friends decisions adult squad members sacrifices Entering descriptive details for your project into NVivo

 Possible now to open program and go to the ‘Sources’ section  The first process is to decide where the details of your project and transcripts of your interviews will be stored.  In this project , ‘internals’ contained all the details pertaining to the project and the ‘externals’ contained the 39 interview transcripts. Internals Details kept for this project in this section of the program were: other software plus podcasts, radio broadcasts, concept spread sheets, video and audio clips. The screenshot seen as follows:

1-Subject A4 Notebook 1 0 0 30/ 09/ 2011 9:05 PM M 30/ 09/ 2011 9:05 PM M ABC radio interview 0 0 9/ 10/ 2011 7:55 PM M 9/ 10/ 2011 7:55 PM M ABC radio interview abstract M O'Neill BALANCING SPORT AND EDUCATION 0 0 15/ 11/ 2011 7:38 AM M 15/ 11/ 2011 7:38 AM M abstract of thesis 0 0 30/ 09/ 2011 9:07 PM M 30/ 09/ 2011 9:08 PM M Annette 0 0 25/ 09/ 2011 6:33 PM M 24/ 06/ 2012 10:02 AM M Belinda 0 0 14/ 09/ 2011 9:35 PM M 24/ 06/ 2012 10:02 AM M Bella 0 0 30/ 01/ 2012 12:59 PM M 1/ 03/ 2012 10:42 PM M Bob 0 0 21/ 09/ 2011 8:50 PM M 11/ 11/ 2011 12:36 PM M Cameron 0 0 25/ 09/ 2011 7:06 PM M 11/ 11/ 2011 12:36 PM M Candy 0 0 8/ 09/ 2011 8:48 PM M 11/ 11/ 2011 12:36 PM M Cate 0 0 27/ 08/ 2011 8:35 PM M 11/ 11/ 2011 12:36 PM M Cellia 0 0 13/ 08/ 2011 10:33 PM M 24/ 06/ 2012 10:02 AM M Chapter 4 Findings 0 0 8/ 10/ 2011 2:47 PM M 11/ 11/ 2011 12:41 PM M code spreadsheet athletes 0 0 8/ 10/ 2011 2:52 PM M 12/ 12/ 2011 12:01 PM M concept model 0 0 8/ 12/ 2011 1:50 PM M 8/ 12/ 2011 1:55 PM M Destiny 0 0 26/ 11/ 2011 2:27 PM M 24/ 06/ 2012 10:02 AM M Donna 0 0 13/ 08/ 2011 10:53 PM M 11/ 11/ 2011 1:27 PM M Endnote Literature Pastotal care 0 0 8/ 10/ 2011 3:16 PM M 11/ 11/ 2011 1:29 PM M Endnote Literature for NVivo 0 0 9/ 10/ 2011 8:01 PM M 11/ 11/ 2011 1:29 PM M Endnote Literature on Methodology 0 0 9/ 10/ 2011 7:58 PM M 11/ 11/ 2011 1:29 PM M Endnote Literature on overseas schools 0 0 9/ 10/ 2011 8:03 PM M 11/ 11/ 2011 1:29 PM M Endnote Literature on Skill development 0 0 8/ 10/ 2011 3:21 PM M 11/ 11/ 2011 1:29 PM M Endnote Literature on sport schools throughout Asutralia 0 0 8/ 10/ 2011 3:22 PM M 11/ 11/ 2011 1:29 PM M Endnote literature on time constraints and management 0 0 8/ 10/ 2011 3:23 PM M 11/ 11/ 2011 1:29 PM M Endnote Literature on Wellbeing 0 0 8/ 10/ 2011 3:24 PM M 11/ 11/ 2011 1:29 PM M Endnote literature performatrive pedagogy 0 0 15/ 11/ 2011 7:22 AM M 15/ 11/ 2011 7:25 AM M Endnote Defintions 0 0 8/ 10/ 2011 3:14 PM M 11/ 11/ 2011 1:29 PM M An example of other software audio transcript: directly uploaded using this software (these were notes taken during each interview and had ‘bookmarks’ connected to them)

It is possible to use ‘adobe flash player’ and the audio can be heard by clicking on each code Radio interview: ABC interview

Balancing sport & study - Maureen O'Neill 04 October 2011 , 5:16 PM by Jessica Hinchliffe If you're young and an athlete how do you fit in school? Do you do it from home, do you attend sometimes and not others?

A PhD Student from Sunshine Coast University, Maureen O'Neill is looking into the demands placed on students who hit the books but also achieve in the sporting field.

Why has she chosen such a topic? Mary-Lou spoke to Maureen to find out why.

http://www.blogs.abc.net.au/files/drive--phd---maureen-oneill---air.mp3 Examples of other software and ethics letters contained in internals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txG5a70LnYY Jessica Fox; school-age kayak/slalom Australian champion Author, Year Title Endnote #

My group: School models:

{"Olympic Diver Tom Daley moves schools to escape bullying", 2009 #390;Aboriginal Affairs, 2010 #608;Aboriginal Affairs New South Wales, 2001 #555;Adair, 1997 #634;Aicinena, 2006 #216;Athlete Career and Education, 2009 #9;Australian Education International, 2010 #556;Australian Government, 2011 #651;Australian Institute of Sport, 1996 #589;Australian Institute of Sport, 2010 #521;Australian Institute of Sport, 2011 #641;Australian Rugby League, 2010 #557;Australian Sports Commission, 2007 #650;Australian Sports Commission, 2009 #389;Australian Sports Commission, 2010 #496;Australian Sports Commission, 2010 #552;Australian Sports Commission, 2010 #590;Australian Sports Commission, 2010 #592;Australian Sports Commission, 2010 #593}

9 November 2012

Barbara Palmer Manager, Office of Research Tel: +61 7 5459 4574 Fax: +61 7 5459 4727 Email: [email protected]

Mrs Maureen O’Neill Dr Bill Allen Ms Angela Calder Faculty of Science, Health and Education Dear Maureen, Bill and Angela Expedited ethics approval for amended research project: High performance athletes at school: A study of conflicting demands (S/11/347)

This letter is to confirm that on 9 November 2012, the Chairperson of the Human Research Ethics Committee of the University of the Sunshine Coast granted expedited ethics approval for an amendment to the project, High performance athletes at school: A study of conflicting demands (S/11/347). Use of colour codes

 It is helpful to designate  For this project the a colour to each item colour codes were: listed in your internals  Green: Athletes which will be consistent  Pink: Teachers throughout all items in the project (this selection  Red: Parents will be outlined more in  Blue: Endnote literature stage three: running  Orange: Subgroup of queries) athletes ( Female)  Yellow: Main three higher order themes Memos: ‘Annotations’- keep your ideas and reflections from all interviews

Annette 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M 3/01/2012 8:28 PM

ASA220911...... Notes from interview 17 year old kayaker international competitor. Annette is doing VPR (completing the OP over 3 years )

Participant: Annette is a 17 yrs. kayaker attending a government school to complete her OP (VPR) Demographics: Annette (Female) is 17 years , government school, individual sport Background: Annette has made an option to complete the OP over VPR to combine both sport and education. She completes at least 20 hours of training per week. She mentioned in the interview:

problem need emotional support sacrifices especially in the form of a social life flexibility of schooling individually based plan for athletes

Externals: For this project: stored the 39 interviews and links as seen allow connections between participants

Jo 1 1 13/ 08/ 2011 10:37 AM M Attributes: These are characteristics or properties of a source item or node which assist in analysing the data

Values: Each attribute has a set value - e.g. ‘gender’ had the value attached of : • male, • female, • not applicable and • unassigned Case classification: Imported demographics of participants already created outside of program.

Code School model and Sport Age Pseudo Competition status Gender State Individual(I)/Team( T) TWA060911 Non-government I 18 Tiana International F In-school scholarship AIS Qld

SVA250811 Government T 18+ Sue NTID F VPR National In school excellence Qld KEA050811 Government I 18+ Kylie International F Qld BAA160811 Government T 18+ Bob International M Qld, NZ & USA TCA160911 Non-government I 19 Teila Age range F Catholic National NSW

LBA160911 Non-government I 18+ Lee International F Catholic NSW When imported into the project resembles the following:

Case Age Schooling Sport Type age assessment gender Schooling particip school model groups type options ants status

Nodes\\people 16 government Individual 15 formative female VPR over 3 athletes at \\Annette years to18 years school old years

Nodes\\people 17 specific Individual 15 formative female 2 years full athletes at \\Belinda years pathway to18 load school old years

Nodes\\people 18+ government Team 18 + summative male 2 years full athletes left \\Bob years years load school old old

Nodes\\people 18+ government Unassigned 18+ Unassigned female Unassigned teacher Unassigned years years \\Bella old old

Nodes\\people 18+ government Individual 18 + summative male 2 years full athletes left years years \\Cameron old old load school Stage 2:Topic

ABSTRACTION: OF OBVIOUS TOPICS FROM THE TRANSCRIPTS COMMENCES . G R O U P I N G : OF RELATED CONCEPTS KNOWN AS ‘NODES’ BEGINS . STRIPES AND HIGHLIGHTS: CERTAIN PHRASES AND SENTENCES PARAGRAPHS AND OBVIOUS TOPICS

To assist with initial nodes try using concept maps. The one seen below was the designed for the athletes’ group(Chapter 5) where the data being analysed was illustrating their ‘voice’ – their perspective of the needs and demands of combining dual endeavours.

Before coding transcripts to nodes it is necessary to create node classification for each of the participants. In this project 39 node classifications were created linking the nodes to each ‘people classification’. Below is a sample of the 39 ‘people’ nodes are seen

Name Sources References Created On Created By Zac 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57AM M Will 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Tom 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Tiana 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Tia 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Telia 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Tammy 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Sun 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Sue 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Shelly 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Phil 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Pete 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Ned 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Mike 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Melinda 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Mary 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Mark 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Linda 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Lee 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Leanne 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Kylie 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Kerry 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Jodie 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Jo 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Jenny 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Glen 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Donna 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Destiny 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Celia 1 1 16/12/2011 8:57 AM M Nodes Transcripts(tip: turn on coding stripes) Preview for next eSeminar

Stage 3: Analytic Merging nodes into hierarchies Data sets Models and relationships Using Queries Running Queries Matrix coding queries Cross case queries analysis

Stage 4: Drawing conclusions Verification Developing theories

Contact email: [email protected] References: Australian Olympic Committee. (2012). Australian Olympic team:Olympic sports. Retrieved September 15, 2012 ,from http:://www.london2012oly,pics.com.au/sports. Edhlund, B. (2011). NVivo essentials. Sweden: Form & Kunskap AB. O’Neill, M. (2012) High performance school-age athletes: A study of conflicting demands, Unpublished doctoral dissertation, The University of the Sunshine Coast. Maroochydore. Queensland. Richards, L. (2002). Rigorous, rapid, reliable and qualitative? Computing in qualitative method. The American Journal of Health ?Behavior, 26(6), 425-436 Sinkovics, R., & Alfoldi, E. (2012). Facilitating the interaction between theory and data in using CAQDAS, In G. Symon and C. Cassel (eds.) Qualitative organizational research: Core methods and current challenges, London: Sage publications, 109-113.Retrieved , March, 20, 2012, from http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:159596