Is anyone aware of studies in any field using school progress reports as data for a qualitative secondary analysis?
School progress is always statistical, soif we consider pupil's progress assuming progress report, which contains numbers and grades, as our secondary data, how do we claim this data as qualitative? When it is quantitative, already! What do you say?
Syed Abdul Rehman Bukhari , for the case I am considering progress reports are not often soley quantitative. It has to do with children with special education needs whose reports include imporessions from their teachers and institutional carers.
Amanda - Progress is itself a qualitative term. Since you are dealing with children with special education needs whose reports include impressions from their teachers and institutional carers, I suggest you to use mixed methods research. Mixed method design is a collection of both open and closed-ended data (qualitative and quantitative data) in response to research question. It emphasize the research problem and use all approaches available in order to come to a better understanding have a deep understanding of the problem and to collect the rich data. By using qualitative research you can gain an understanding of underlying reasons, opinions, and motivations and provides insights into the problem or helps to develop ideas or hypotheses for potential quantitative research and by using quantitative research you can deal with numbers, measurement and involves mostly descriptive statistics and inferential statistics.
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