Participant Self-Coding as Workflow Signal: Codebook Repair and the Concreteness Gradient in Participatory Qualitative Analysis

Superseded draft. An earlier draft on participant self-coding and qualitative interpretation, superseded by Keeping the Reason Behind the Label: What Self-Coded Presentation Feedback Supports.

Authors: Iman YeckehZaare · PDF

This working manuscript studies participant self-coding as a workflow signal for participatory qualitative analysis, focusing on codebook repair, selective adjudication, and the concreteness gradient in participant-researcher divergence.

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