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CHAPTER 6
QUALITATIVE RESULTS
The qualitative results presented here are used to provide context for the quantitative
results. There were a total of 130 participants in the treatment group, however only 96 of those
students sufficiently completed the qualitative sections of the journals. The 34 students who were
not included in the qualitative results were due to nonexistent or insufficient answers such as, "I
don't know." Of those 34 students, one received an A for the course, two received Bs, one
received a C, fourteen received Fs, and twelve received Ws.
6.1 Codes, Categories, and Themes
The journal entries for the 96 students were transferred into text documents and uploaded
to Dedoose22, qualitative research analysis software. After rereading the journal entries several
times, the entries were broken down into descriptive codes. These codes were used to construct
categories (Merriam, 2009). The categories were created based upon the positive and negative
reactions to the Alice environment. Finally, themes were created based on the frequency and
relationship of the codes and categories. The codes, categories, and themes were compared by
two other researchers to create inter-rater reliability. The themes were quotes taken directly from
the participants. The creation of codes, grouping of codes into categories, and generation of
theories (themes) was based on Robson's (2002) systematic approach to analyzing qualitative
data.
* The Alice environment is useful in demonstrating most Java concepts, but cannot be used
to demonstrate them all.
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