Students' Experiences Using Peer Review to Affect Writing Self-Efficacy and Writing Performance in an Undergraduate Mass Communications Writing Course

How they used Delve

A doctoral candidate at the University of South Carolina used Delve to code interview transcripts from 12 undergraduates and 223 peer-review comments in a mixed-methods action research study of peer review, writing self-efficacy and writing performance in a mass communications writing course.

“I used initial coding and in vivo coding to analyze the interview transcripts. I used the software platform Delve for initial coding and recorded descriptions of each code in Delve to form an initial codebook (Tracy, 2020).”

Field

higher education; writing pedagogy; mass communications

Data

Interviews with 12 undergraduate students (transcribed with Otter.ai) and 223 peer-review comments extracted from Microsoft Word documents, plus writing-performance scores

Approach

Convergent mixed-methods action research; initial and in vivo coding with categorising and connecting strategies (Maxwell & Miller), inductive analysis after Mertler; peer debriefing with the dissertation chair

Data types

Interviews, Documents