Ease on Down the Code: Complex Collaborative Qualitative Coding Simplified with 'Code Wizard'
Abbas Ganji, Mania Orand, David W. McDonald

TL;DR
This paper introduces 'Code Wizard', a qualitative coding tool that incorporates a new 'coders' certainty' dimension to enhance collaboration, inter-coder reliability, and data analysis in small research teams.
Contribution
It presents a novel collaborative coding method and tool that emphasizes coders' certainty, improving the quality and transparency of qualitative data analysis.
Findings
Coders' certainty helps identify ambiguous and overlapping codes.
Making coding details visible streamlines the process and fosters ownership.
Disagreements contain valuable information for improving analysis.
Abstract
This paper describes the design and development of a preliminary qualitative coding tool as well as a method to improve the process of achieving inter-coder reliability (ICR) in small teams. Software applications that support qualitative coding do not sufficiently assist collaboration among coders and overlook some fundamental issues related to ICR. We propose a new dimension of collaborative coding called "coders' certainty" and demonstrate its ability to illustrate valuable code disagreements that are missing from existing approaches. Through a case study, we describe the utility of our tool, Code Wizard, and how it helped a group of researchers effectively collaborate to code naturalistic observation data. We report the valuable lessons we learned from the development of our tool and method: (1) identifying coders' certainty constitutes an important part of determining the quality of…
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Taxonomy
TopicsData Visualization and Analytics · Qualitative Research Methods and Applications · Educational Research and Analysis
