Using Students as a Distributed Coding Team for Validation through Intercoder Agreement

Language
en
Document Type
Report
Issue Date
2016-05-12
Issue Year
2016
Authors
Kaufmann, Andreas
Barcomb, Ann
Riehle, Dirk
Editor
Abstract

In qualitative research, results often emerge through an analysis process called coding. A common measure of validity of theories built through qualitative research is the agreement between different people coding the same materials. High intercoder agreement indicates that the findings are derived from the data as opposed to being relative results based on the original researcher's bias. However, measuring such intercoder agreement incurs the high cost of having additional researchers perform seemingly redundant work. In this paper we present first results on a novel method of using students for validating theories. We find that intercoder agreement between a large number of students is almost as good as the intercoder agreement between two professionals working on the same materials.

Series
Technical reports / Department Informatik
Series Nr.
CS 2016-01
Journal Title
Technical Reports
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