Clean Energy Education Study Results and Recommendations: Curriculum to Change Lives and Address Climate Change

How they used Delve

An engineering technology faculty member at SUNY Buffalo State University used Delve to code 13 interviews with industry, education and community leaders about clean energy education in Western New York, building codes from the transcripts and grouping them into categories to derive the themes behind a proposed curriculum.

“The thirteen raw interview transcripts were coded utilizing a relatively new computer-assisted qualitative data analysis (CAQDA) software product from Delve [13]. [...] Delve coding software assisted in efficiently organizing and analyzing transcript data while deriving meaningful conclusions instead of analyzing data manually, with pen and paper [13].”

Field

Engineering technology education / clean energy workforce

Data

An online survey of 72 respondents and 13 interviews with industry, education and community leaders in the five counties of Western New York

Approach

Mixed methods: online survey analysed in Excel, and 13 interviews analysed by directed qualitative content analysis (Hsieh and Shannon) with codes built from the transcripts and grouped into categories following Saldaña

Data types

Interviews, Open-ended survey responses