Qualitative data analysis: the framework approach.

By Joanna Smith, J. Firth. Nurse Researcher, 2011

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One size fits all? What counts as quality practice in (reflexive) thematic analysis? (2020, neutral): “Between these two ‘poles’ of TA, ‘codebook’ approaches, like framework analysis (e.g. Gale et al. 2013; Ritchie and Lewis 2003; Smith & Firth, 2011), matrix analysis (e.g. Miles and Huberman 1994; Nadin and Cassell 2014) and template analysis (e.g. Brooks et al. 2015; King 2012, 2014), comprise…”
Prediction (2019, neutral): “Normal training classifies data sets into training and test sets, which renders data sets not fully applicable to training.”
Using Framework Analysis in Applied Qualitative Research (2021, neutral): “Regardless of the purpose for which framework analysis is employed, systematic movement through the steps of framework analysis naturally provides an explicit audit trail (Parkinson et al., 2016; Smith & Firth, 2011).”
CHE Principles: facilitating authentic and dialogical semi-structured interviews in educational research (2017, methodology): “These readings led to the identification, revision and confirmation of increasingly distilled and refined categories and codes (Bowen 2008; Smith and Firth 2011) that formed the basis of the subsequent analysis.”