Forging a New Ferndale: Enhancing School Climate for School Improvement

How they used Delve

A doctoral researcher at the University of Georgia used Delve to code teacher surveys, two focus groups, and semi-structured interviews from an action-research study on improving school climate at Ferndale High School, thematically coding each research cycle's data to its research questions.

“The researcher opted to use the online coding platform Delve and uploaded all transcripts of the surveys, focus groups, and interviews. [...] All the data taken was transcribed and uploaded to the Delve Qualitative Analysis tool for coding. The rich descriptions produced by the variety of methods used allowed thematic analysis "to find repeated patterns of meaning"”

Field

school leadership; school climate and improvement

Data

Teacher surveys, two focus groups, and semi-structured interviews with the design team and staff at Ferndale High School, recorded and transcribed through Microsoft Teams

Approach

Action research with a school design team across research cycles; transcripts of surveys, focus groups and interviews coded thematically by research question in Delve

Data types

Open-ended survey responses, Focus groups, Interviews