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Hannah Krouse

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Codebooks are an integral tool that are utilized during qualitative data analysis to determine themes or "codes" from data sources which help answer research questions. Research on afterschool programs, however, primarily rely on quantitative data, leaving few established codebooks that analyze findings from focus groups and determine themes from participants' experiences. The afterschool research team seeks to answer research questions related to parent and youth needs within the afterschool program, youth learning and development, and culturally relevant practices within the afterschool program through the construction and use of a codebook. To build a codebook, afterschool researchers reviewed cleaned focus group transcripts to identify specific categories mentioned by participants that relate to our research questions (needs, learning and development, and culturally relevant practices). After the codebook was drafted, pairs of researchers used Microsoft Excel to pilot the codebook by assigning codes to relevant lines in the focus group transcripts. Pairs reconciled their codes by comparing their codes to determine which codes were most accurate. Final codebook revisions were completed by combining similar codes together and ensuring all parts of the codebook were complete. Co-developing and piloting our codebooks allowed us to conceptualize how the data impacts aspects of an afterschool program, plus helped make our codebook align with our research questions. Co-developing our codebooks also helped us minimize repetitive and overlapping codes that could be condensed together. Ultimately, building a codebook during the data analysis process of research is a valuable and accurate way to contextualize results in participants' voiced experiences. Keywords: Qualitative; Codebook; Afterschool; Methods

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Purdue University / 2025

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Hannah Krouse