A General Inductive Approach for Analyzing Qualitative Evaluation Data

By David R. Thomas. 2006

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Re-imagining Algorithmic Fairness in India and Beyond (2021, methodology): “Analysis and coding Transcripts were coded and analyzed for patterns using an inductive approach [201].”
Stereotyping Norwegian Salmon: An Inventory of Pitfalls in Fairness Benchmark Datasets (2021, methodology): “This inductive approach aligns with our exploratory goal of surfacing a range of pitfalls, including many that are not on the community radar and thus likely to be overlooked by a more deductive approach requiring a predefined codebook grounded in existing assumptions (Thomas, 2006).”
Motivation to learn in massive open online courses: Examining aspects of language and social engagement (2016, methodology): “The inductive content analysis method (Hsieh & Shannon, 2005; Thomas, 2006) revealed five types of MOOC completers according to their learning motivation: Problem-solvers, Networkers, Benefactors, Innovation-seekers, and Complementarylearners.”
Adonis or Hephaestus? Exploring Body Image in Male Athletes (2009, methodology): “This process continued until the data were adequately summarized in a few overarching dimensions describing the body image experience of the athletes (Thomas, 2006).”
Scaffolding critical thinking in the zone of proximal development (2011, methodology): “Transcripts were analysed using Thomas’s general inductive approach (Thomas, 2006), which seeks to develop a framework of the underlying experiences evident in the raw data while recognising that interpretation is also shaped by theory and the experiences, knowledge and beliefs of the researchers.”
Methods and dimensions of electronic health record data quality assessment: enabling reuse for clinical research (2013, methodology): “Furthermore, using an existing model to guide analysis is a deductive approach, which has the potential to obscure information contained in the data.(11) By imposing an existing model from a different discipline, we would have run the risk of missing important findings.”
Same data, different conclusions: Radical dispersion in empirical results when independent analysts operationalize and test the same hypothesis (2021, methodology): “The stated reasons were then subjected to a qualitative analysis based on the General Inductive Approach (Thomas, 2006).”
The effects of gender on group work process and achievement: an analysis through self‐ and peer‐assessment (2014, methodology): “An inductive approach to the qualitative data analysis can be used to ‘establish clear links between the evaluation or research objectives and the summary findings derived from the raw data’ (Thomas, 2006, p. 237).”
Movement-Based Mathematics: Enjoyment and Engagement without Compromising Learning through the EASY Minds Program. (2017, methodology): “Analysis was performed using a standard general inductive approach to qualitative analysis (Thomas, 2006).”
Using AI-generated suggestions from ChatGPT to optimize clinical decision support (2023, methodology): “Comments in free text were thematically analyzed through NVivo 12 using the inductive approach.(35)”
Proxy tasks and subjective measures can be misleading in evaluating explainable AI systems (2020, methodology): “Transcripts were coded and analyzed for paerns using an inductive approach [39].”
‘I feel less lonely’: what older people say about participating in a social networking website (2010, background): “Any categories that carried a similar meaning were then combined (Thomas, 2006).”
"Privacy is not for me, it's for those rich women": Performative Privacy Practices on Mobile Phones by Women in South Asia (2018, methodology): “Inductive analysis was conducted on the raw interview data [49].”
Student engagement in very large classes: the teachers’ perspective (2010, methodology): “Each transcript was printed and themes were identified using the general inductive approach (Thomas 2006 ).”
Exploring the contribution of rural enterprises to local resilience (2015, background): “All transcripts were initially read by the lead researcher and samples were also, independently, read by two other researchers (Thomas 2006).”