Dear all,
I am in the coding process of some data transcribed from 14 semi-structured interviews with design students. I have 30-40 codes for each one with repetitions between them and 6-8 themes for the final categorization. I plan to use Cohen's kappa with the help of some other coders to ensure the reliability of the themes but i have three questions to be answered:
1) I believe i should give the coders the themes and their detailed explanations so that they can agree or disagree about the case to be in that theme, but should i also give them the codes or will marking the segments that are coded in the transcripts be enough?
2) Should i pick up two coders to agree or disagree between each other or should i pick several coders to measure the agreement between me and the coders?
3) What happens if a coder thinks that some segments in the transcriptions do not belong to neither of the themes in the categorization system?
I would appreciate any help about these questions. Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Ufuk Ulusan
Department of Industrial Design
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
İstanbul, TR
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