On the Pragmatics of Qualitative Assessment

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Qualitative Analysis of Content by (2005, methodology): “Doubts and problems concerning the definitions of categories, coding rules, or categorization of specific cases need to be discussed and resolved within your research team (Schilling, 2006).”
From Ineffectiveness to Destruction: A Qualitative Study on the Meaning of Negative Leadership (2009, background): “The map is a helpful device to give an overview of the major themes given by one person, a group or – in this case – all the interviewees (Schilling, 2006).”
Emotions in uniform: How nurses regulate emotion at work via emotional boundaries (2011, methodology): “The verbatim transcriptions totalling 163 pages were directly entered into NVivo8 and analysis was conducted in line with recommendations from Schilling (2006).”
Implicit Leadership Theories: Think Leader, Think Effective? (2011, background): “…of a category in comparison to the total number of statements across all interviewees), and person frequency (i.e., how many of the participants address a certain theme at all) are helpful to avoid weighting single comments too heavily and generalizing findings too quickly (cp. Schilling, 2006).”
Why Students Procrastinate: A Qualitative Approach (2013, methodology): “Additionally, we con ducted a misfit analysis (Schilling, 2006), covering those statements that coders could not categorize but that seemed related to antecedents of academic procrastination.”