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Messing About with HyperRESEARCH 3.0
Prepared by Jane M. Gangi, Ph.D.
May 4, 2011
Introduction
In HyperRESEARCH, you will see 3 boxes:
1. STUDY WINDOW—which is a sort of hyperlinked index with multiple finding capacities. The comments from your wide margins can go into “Annotations” in this box.
2. CODE BOOK—a place where you keep your list of codes and, at the bottom, you code descriptions (like the title of a film [code] and trailer or film review or advertising [code description]). You can generate your own codes (as I do in CRK’s and my Critical Literacy Project), or use established codes, as in Bogdan and Biklen, 2007; Saldana (2009) [see my Data Analysis, Coding, and CAQDAS PowerPoint].
3. SOURCE—this is where you will upload your excerpt, saved in plain or rich text, from your field notes. HyperRESEARCH makes no changes to this data. Because this is the place all your data lands, it is helpful to name your source-name of school-artifact-plain text; or source-name of school-field notes-plain text; or source-name of school-interview-plain text
As a teaching model, I will be using:
Critical Literacy Project
Jane M. Gangi, Ph.D. & Courtney Ryan Kelly, Ph.D.
We have conducted 2 workshops with fifth graders, and will be doing more. We have presented on the outcomes at the New England Conference of Multicultural Education, and will be writing an article for peer review, which is tentatively titled, “Wait first I wanted to tell you not everything from a book is true” (in vivo).
GETTING READY FOR HYPERRESEARCH
1. From your field notes select an interesting couple of pages and cut and paste into a word document. Do not include line #ing, or the wide margins. exclude your reflections and codes—I will show you where those can be cut-and-pasted into HyperRESEARCH. Include fieldnotes, or transcriptions of interviews, or (in my case) children’s written responses. SAVE THIS FILE IN plain text or rich text (the manufacturer’s recommendation—I have found plain text easier on my computer).
Make sure you have this info on all source documents:
TYPE OF DATA: Field notes (or transcriptions or interviews or written artifacts or…)
PLACE: PSEUDONYAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (in CRK’s and my study, Augusta Savage Elementary School, and Diego Rivera Elemetary School)
STUDENTS: # of students, age, description of students (in CRK”s and my study, about 25 mostly 10 years olds in a 5th grade class in diverse urban schools)
TIME: for example, 10:45-12 am
DATE: for example, March 10, 2010
TEACHER: (in CRK’s and my study Mrs. Corey, 5th grade teacher)
RESEARCHERS: Jane Gangi (JMG) and Courtney Ryan Kelly (CRK)
INSERT PAGE #s (line # not necessary)
SAVE IN PLAIN OR RICH TEXT.
2. Go to
3. Select Download the Free Limited Edition of HyperRESEARCH Now
FYI: The Code List is limited to 75 codes; A study is limited to 7 cases; Each case can have no more than 50 code references.
4. Select HyperRESEARCH 3.0.2 Installer.EXE (directions for mac users are under this—good luck with it at home)
5. “You have chosen to open”—Click save.
6. Run the download (“publisher has not been verified will come up”)
7. Welcome to HyperRESEARCH 3.0
√ Next
√I have read…
√accept
8. Save to hard drive or attached removable drive. Ann Dupuis of HyperRESEARCH recommends attached removable. I could not do it on my laptop at home so saved to my hard trip. From my desktop at work, however, I was able to save the free download to my usb.
9. √Install
10. Next screen:
√Launch HyperRESEARCH
√Create Shortcut to HyperRESEARCH on desktop
√Finish
11. Next screen:
√Use free limited edition
12. Next screen
√ Create new study (when you have time and interest you could wander through the QDA and Cinderella studies, studies HyperRESEARCH has posted to show you the program’s capabilities).
For the Critical Literacy Project, I started with “Create New Study,” but now check “Open an existing stud.”
13. LET’S BEGIN
HyperRESEARCH 3.0.2
STUDY WINDOW
Menu: File Edit Cases Sources Codes Reports Theory Window Help
Untitled
I am calling mine Critical Literacy Project.
Menu File, Save as Critical Literacy Project in Jane’s documents; you can title yours whatever you like and can edit you title later, if you like
Menu Cases
√Rightclick
I did 3 times, and named these cases:
Classroom transcriptions
Field notes
Written artifact
“Filter Cases” and the arrows allow you to move from case to case.
MenuSources
To upload:
Into Written artifact: source-ACES-artifact-plain text (the name of the doc tells you it’s a source from Augusta Savage Elementary School containing written artifacts, saved in plain text)
Into Field notes: source-ASES-3-1—10 (which tells you it’s a source from Augusta Savage Elementary School containing filed notes)
Into Classroom transcriptions
14. CREATING CODES
Move cursor to CODE BOOK
√Edit code
√New code
My beginning codes are:
Untainted by constructs
Wanting to communicate
Creating unnecessary fear
To edit, right-click the highlighted code
Untainted by constructs TO Uninfluenced by constructs
You can only use letters and numbers for codes; my attempt at: girls are not “brainless” was rejected because of the “”s—I was trying to do in vivo coding.
Highlight the code you want to use
15. CODING THE DATA
Move cursor to SOURCE
Highlight passage you want to code
Right-click
Choose apply
16. SAVING
From Ann Dupuis
“When you're finished with your session, choose "Save" from the File Menu, save the study file (with file extension .hs2 -- this is the file that keeps track of the codes & cases, etc.) and then exit the program.”
Ann Dupuis
ResearchWare, Inc.
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