Document Analysis as a Qualitative Research Method

By Glenn A. Bowen. 2009

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Subfields: Education, General Social Sciences

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Kirkpatrick Model: Its Limitations as Used in Higher Education Evaluation (2021, background): “Moreover, it involves the creation of themes similar to how interview data are treated (Bowen, 2009).”
Economic resilience and entrepreneurship: lessons from the Sheffield City Region (2014, methodology): “In doing so, document analysis can provide a confluence of evidence that breeds credibility (Eisner 1991) and allows the researcher to corroborate findings across data-sets and thus reduce the impact of potential biases that can exist in a single study (Bowen 2009).”
Smart Devices, Smart Decisions? Implications of Parents’ Sharenting for Children’s Online Privacy: An Investigation of Mothers (2019, methodology): “Document analysis is an “iterative process [that] combines elements of [quantitative] content analysis and thematic analysis” (Bowen 2009, p. 32).”
The role of renewable energy policies for carbon neutrality in Helsinki Metropolitan area (2018, background): “It also incorporates coding content into themes similar to how interview transcripts are analyzed (Glenn, 2009).”
Climate change and the water–energy–food nexus: insights from policy and practice in Tanzania (2018, methodology): “As far as possible, the document analysis followed a systematic procedure (Bowen, 2009; Prior, 2003), designed to examine the extent to which climate change has been integrated into key sector policies, plans and strategies and to look at how this has evolved over the last 15 years, a period when…”
Impact of ChatGPT on learners in a L2 writing practicum: An exploratory investigation (2023, methodology): “Different data collection strategies were employed in both research strands, i.e., observation method for students’ behavior in classroom (Jamshed, 2014), document analysis for learning log (G. A. Bowen, 2009) and thematic analysis for the inter-view (Braun & Clarke, 2012).”
Explicating Affordances: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Affordances in Communication Research (2017, neutral): “To better understand how affordances is used in communication technology scholarship, we conducted a document analysis (Bowen, 2009) of a sample of articles from social science journals that refer to affordances.”
Test, measurement, and evaluation: Understanding and use of the concepts in education (2020, methodology): “The researchers employed document analysis [5] and desk survey [6] for the comprehensive review of test, measurement, and evaluation in peer-reviewed journals, reports, and newspapers [7].”
The Dark (Patterns) Side of UX Design (2018, methodology): “Once we generated a corpus of exemplars, we used the constant comparative method [33] and a document analysis approach [14] to describe the breadth of artifacts and nature of the dark patterns these artifacts included.”