Data analyses performed on responses to a custom-designed questionnaire, interview transcripts, and learner reflections led to three major findings.
A mixed-methods approach will be used including quantitative analysis of questionnaires and qualitative analysis of free-text answers in questionnaires and transcripts of interviews.
Both quantitative and qualitative data were gathered through pretest/posttest questionnaires and transcripts of an online discussion forum.
No personal identifying information was recorded on questionnaires or transcripts, and confidentiality was explained and agreed to by all participants prior to the commencement of each FGD.
The data collection forms, interview questionnaires and transcripts were stored in a secure and locked cupboard at the Secretariat of the Pacific Community office and were only accessible by the study investigators.
38 Content analysis was used to arrive at overarching themes for transition goals, as well as to analyse open-ended comments about utility from the Youth KIT and mentor questionnaires, and transcripts from the chats with the online mentor and from the qualitative interviews.
A code was given to questionnaire and interview transcripts to ensure confidentiality of all opinions expressed by participants.
The bulk of the book was devoted to nonliterary artifacts: letters and testimony from torture victims, medical case histories and questionnaires, soldiers' diaries, transcripts from personal-injury trials.
But, as the consultants sifted through the piles of reports and questionnaires and interview transcripts, they grew convinced that the difference between winners and losers was more profound than they had realized.
