A qualitative analysis of reflective essays was undertaken in order to gain an understanding of the role of peer meetings in students' learning experiences.
These descriptions, coming from a wide array of methodologies, including essays, surveys, qualitative analyses, and observational studies, but from very few empirical data, were grouped into 49 themes, which were clustered into three main categories: physician, teacher, and human characteristics.
The authors conducted a qualitative analysis of 210 essays written as part of the medical school admissions process, and developed a conceptual framework to describe the relationships, ideas and concepts observed in the data.
A qualitative analysis of nursing school admission essays demonstrated that essays could differentiate between students who would complete their studies from those who would not, and that the essay question was a better predictor than measures of prior academic performance [ 10].
This study used a holistic assessment model with qualitative analysis of student reflective essays and descriptive analysis of pre- and post-test oral performance by students in a university English conversation course in Taiwan.
The first phase in the assessment was a qualitative analysis of the reflective essays of an entire third year class.
The qualitative comments from the reflective essays revealed benefits of the arts-making workshop (Table 4) and empathic understanding gained (Table 5).>> The workshop provided a space for reflection to develop students' " humanistic side".
As this area of the literature is relatively under-examined, we chose to conduct an exploratory, qualitative approach to analyze the essays in order to derive a conceptual framework which would describe the patterns of response observed, and to express the relationships between the ideas and concepts encountered [ 16- 18].
This essay discusses how incorporating qualitative analyses and insight in positivist field studies can strengthen researchers' ability to draw causal inferences.
Such comments were taken into account in the qualitative analysis, as was the "resume essay".
