Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each concrete analyst action to the concept it illustrates.
- You mark a transcript segment with the short label 'fear of judgment'
- You group several related codes under 'social anxiety'
- Two researchers code the same interviews and compare their labels
- You let the theory grow out of the data instead of testing a preset one
- Theme
- Inter-rater reliability
- Grounded theory
- Coding
Hints
- Work from the action: labeling a segment, grouping codes, comparing coders, or building theory from data.
- A short label is a code; a broad grouping is a theme; comparing coders is reliability; theory FROM data is grounded theory.
Show the answer
- You mark a transcript segment with the short label 'fear of judgment' → Coding
- You group several related codes under 'social anxiety' → Theme
- Two researchers code the same interviews and compare their labels → Inter-rater reliability
- You let the theory grow out of the data instead of testing a preset one → Grounded theory
Why
Labeling a segment is coding, grouping related codes is a theme, comparing independent coders is inter-rater reliability, and letting theory emerge from data is grounded theory. Each action pins down one concept.
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