Chapter 4 Data Analysis Paper

Chapter 4

Data Analysis and Findings

This chapter presents the findings from data that were collected and analyzed from video recordings of supervisory meetings and follow up interviews. The chapter consists of several sections. First, participant pair profiles were developed to introduce the participants who shared their experiences and aided this research. Within each of these profiles are the process and content themes derived from inductive analysis. Following this is a section that presents data from a deductive analysis.

The inductive data analysis began once the supervisory meeting data were converted from audio and video recordings to transcribed text. Data reduction began with reading and re-reading the transcribed data. Next,

In this example, the supervisor is making a statement and the supervisee affirms what the speaker is saying, but does not add any content to the conversation. The supervisor then added to the previous statement.

Asking questions is simply when the supervisor or supervisee asks a specific question. Examples of asking questions Supervisor: Did you put somewhere in your notes about inconsistent progress? Supervisee: No. I need to insert that in the report.

Laughing was an emergent theme observed in the data. Laughing is described as either the supervisor or supervisee laughing during statements. Laughing occurred both by the speaker and the listener separately or simultaneously. For example: Speaker: I am not good at assessment (-- removed HTML --) Listener: (-- removed HTML --) I wasn’t either, I had to study hard.

Directives was the final theme that emerged in the data. Directives are defined as giving a specific instruction or task to be completed. For example:

Supervisor: You need to have all your data recorded in your document before you submit it to me.

In the above example the supervisor is clearly telling the supervisee to do a task.

Inductive

He identified his weaknesses as not being as independent as he wanted and adjusting in therapy. The male supervisee felt that his supervisor was open and available, but he indicated that he needed longer meeting times with the supervisor. He believed his supervisor’s strengths were that she was a “get to the point” type of person, she consistently offered her time, she was “up front” with him, she had years of experience, she was willing to help, she communicated well with him, and she had a lot of knowledge in the subject