1. Youngwummin: Analysis and Presenting Findings

2. Analysing your data What did you ask? What did you find out?
Do opinions matter?
Do numbers count?
What conclusions can you draw?
Did anything surprise you?
Before Christmas we learned how to write a research question and how to collect data. Now we are going to look at how to analyse the collected data – which basically means how to make sense of what you have found in the research. As such, there are few questions to keep in mind when analysing:
What did you ask?
What did you find out?
Do opinions matter?
Do numbers count?
What conclusions can you draw?
Did anything surprise you?
I imagine that the young people are mainly going to be collecting stories of young women’s experience in WW1, but they may also choose to hand put some questionnaires to understand what they family, friends, teachers, librarians etc think the impact was or they might decide to conduct interviews or focus groups. So, in this session we will look at what to do with this data when it has been collected.

3. Analysing Quantitative Data
Quantitative data = information that can be measured and written down with numbers.
Closed questions e.g. do you know what year women got the vote?
Organise information – add up responses
Create a table/graph/pie chart in Excel
What does the data tell us?

4. Task: Analysing Questionnaires
In pairs spend 15 minutes looking through the NKBL questionnaires and conduct some analysis.
Think about:
Organising the data
What does it tell you?
How are you going to present it?

5. Analysing Qualitative Data
Qualitative data analysis is not just a process of counting you trying to understand and find meaning through words. This involves a process of coding.
Coding = finding themes and patterns in the research
Read through the data
Organise answers into themes e.g. family, work, education
Under each theme write up the findings
Find patterns in the themes e.g. most people thought that women played an important role in WW1

6. Task: Analysing Focus Groups
In pairs spend 20 minutes looking through the focus group data for NKBL.
Read through the data
Organise the answers into themes
Write the key findings for each theme
Find patterns
Did anything surprise you?
How you going to present the findings?

7. Presenting your Findings
Introduction – background to the project
Aim – what were you hoping to achieve when you started – including research questions
Methods – how you went about the research – interviews, focus groups, secondary data….
Findings – what you found out
Conclusions – what did you conclude? Did anything surprise you?
In April we will be going to the NLS for a session on how to prepare for the exhibition – for that purpose, the young people will be presenting their research in creative ways – stories, making newspapers, suitcases filled with artefacts etc.
For the PDC they will need to present their research findings locally (to the rest of the youth group and/or others) to be assessed. So, I am just going to talk you though how this could be presented. They don’t have to do it as a PowerPoint, they could make posters etc.
What needs to be included are:
Introduction – background to the project
Aim – what were you hoping to achieve when you started
Methods – how you went about the research – interviews, focus groups, secondary data….
Findings – what you found out
Conclusions – what did you conclude? Did anything surprise you?

8. Get creative with your findings
Pictures
Photographs
Diagrams/graphs/bar charts…
Quotes
Film
Audio
…….
I’ll now show 2 examples of young people’s research findings….

9. My research
By Ella-Rose Smith

10. Introduction
The topic that we had to choose a question about was literature and libraries. So I thought of a few different question ideas such as: Does Shakespearian language affect our English today?, Are libraries closing down too quickly?, The affect of library closures on pre- school children? And Does acting help your English? But I finally decided on: What's peoples attitude towards library closures?
My question!

11. Methodology
For my research I only used questionnaires to find out my information. I had 22 people participate in my research (12 were female and 10 were male), among the 22 people 59% were older than 40 and 41%were under 4o, the age range was from years of age.

12. Question Examples: How many times a week do you go to the library?
How old are you?
Would you have access to another library if needs be?
Do you have a library card?
How badly would it impact your life if the library was to close down?
How would you feel if your local library closed?

13. Research Ethics
For my research ethics I got everyone who participated in my research to fill in one of my consent forms. This way it keeps everyone's information/data anonymous. I did not tell any lies or deceive people. I also respect people and their choices while taking part in this.

14. Thematic Analysis codes in red I would be very sad
disappointed
awful
Would be very disappointed
Wouldn’t like it
I wouldn’t like it at all
It would be awful
upset
Not good
As you can see I have coded a few of the open ended questions.
Quiet sad
devastating
sad
devastating
Great shame
shame

15. Tally charts
These are some tables to show the answers to closed ended and Likert-scale questions.

16. Results
How badly would it impact you if the library closed?
For my results I put every piece of information into a table and then transferred it onto a graph to look like the one displayed above.
Number of people answered

17. Results
10%
Codes
90%
In this graph it shows that the most common answer would be sad.
This pie chart shows that more than 90% of people who visit the library have a library card.

18. Results
Number of people
Lots of people would have access to another library but there are some elderly citizens that wouldn’t have access to another one at all.
Number of people
This chart shows that most people think that the village library is good and would dislike it to close down.

19. The answer
So I have found out that the answer to my question here it is:
What's peoples attitude towards library closures?
People would feel sad, upset and annoyed!

20. Different?
What would I do different next time? Well next time I would try and do a few more different methods rather than just questionnaires. The next thing I would want to find out would be, Why are libraries closing so quickly?

21. Thank you for watching!

22. WHY DO we use LIBRARIES?
By Jess GLENNIE
how/why I chose my question

23. What I’ve been Doing
Over the last three months I have been researching children's ideas and opinions about the Lincroft school library. I have found out lots of interesting things and I would like to share them with you.

24. How/ Why I chose my question
Nowadays Libraries do lots more than just lend out books, so I wanted to find out what people use libraries the most for.

25. Research Ethics
Before I gave out any questionnaires or took any observations I got all my participants to sign a consent form. They state that I would not share any information anybody gave me, they could stop participating at any moment, and that their name and age would be completely confidential. Also I did not lie or twist any words anybody gave me and I didn’t lie in my questionnaires.

26. Questionnaire
I sent a short questionnaire to 25 people in my Year 7 English class. The next slides will tell you about each of my questions, all with a supporting graph.

27. Coding
For the open ended question I had to code the answers in to categories for example:
I like the posters
It’s Big
The computers are bad.
Negative
Positive
It’s too busy
The chairs are comfy

28. How often do you use the school library?
Unfortunately this graph shows almost one third of my English class go to the library less than once a fortnight! 

29. What do you do in the library?
I found that most people in my English class use the library for its original purpose: reading! Yay!

30. What are your opinions on Mobile libraries?
On this question, I found out that although not many of my class mates had been on a travelling library, they liked the idea!

31. How Long do you spend in the library?
This graph shows that around a 1/3 of my year 7 English class only spend around 10 minutes in the Lincroft school library per visit.

32. What are your opinions on the school library?
For this question I had to code the answers, as I had over 20 different responses!

33. What improvements could be made to the school library?
For this question, I was very interested to see my classmates comments. As you can see I had a range of answers.

34. LIBRARIES ARE BENEFICIAL TO CHILDREN AND ADULTS.
This question was a likert scale question. This means that the participants had to choose an answer that best suited their opinion.

35. Observations
I spent one lunch time observing four different people over a 10 minute period. They were all year 7’s and they were 2 boys and 2 girls. Each time they moved on to a different activity, I counted that as one time. Here are my results.

36. Observations
This graph shows that each person did very different things. Also most the things they did where book related e.g. looking for books and reading.

37. My answer
Looking at all my data I thing the reason people use the school library is because they find it a quiet, calm and nice place they can go to relax read or do work. Also I think many people enjoy using the library. On the other hand I also think that some people do not appreciate the quality of their local library and they don’t know how lucky the are to have so many good facilities around them.

38. I would like to give a special thank you to Dr Cindy Kerawalla, Mrs Doyle and Miss Smith for all the support and help while I was doing this project. Their help was greatly appreciated!

39. Thank you for watching!
I hope you enjoyed finding out about my research!