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Tilley  \nKelly D. Powick  \nIn this article, wereporton our qualitative study involving eightindividuals hired to transcribe research tapes in university contexts. We consider issues of data analysis and data trustworthiness and the implications for both when transcription is assigned to someone other than the researcher. We explore the challenges transcribers faced completing their work, transcription decisions they made in situ, and the effects ofthe transcribers’ degree of investment in the research on the transcripts produced. We highlightthe need for researchers to acknowledgetranscription asan importantaspect ofthe research process and take seriously the decision ofwho transcribes.  \nKeywords: transcription, qualitative methodology, data trustworthiness, interviewing, research assistants  \nCetarticle offre un compte-rendu d’une étude qualitative concernant huitindividusembauchés pour transcri redes cassettes de recherchedans un contexte universitaire. Nous étudionsla problématiquedel’analysedes données, delafiabilitédes donnéeset du rôle qu’ellesjouentdans la transcription accomplie par quelqu’un d’autre que lechercheur. Nous explorons les défis auxquels les préposés à la machine à transcri re fontfacedans la réalisation deleur travail, dans leursdécisions in situ etles effets sur la transcription finale de leur niveau d’investissement dans la recherche. Nous soulignons le besoin que les chercheurs reconnaissent la transcription comme un aspectimportantdu processus de recherche etdeprendreau sérieux le choix deceux qui fontla transcription.  \nMots-clés: transcription, méthodologie qualitative, fiabilité des données, entrevues, assistants de recherche  \nThe use of qualitative methodology in educational contexts has grown tremendously in the last few decades. In education faculties both professors and students are turning to qualitative methodologies to interrogate questions of practice, and other areas of educational import (Page, 2001) . In particular, educational researchers use various forms  \nCANADIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION 27, 2 & 3 (2002): 291–310  \n292 SUSANA. TILLEY & KELLY D. POWICK  \nof interviewing as a primary method of data collection, and transcripts as a means of re/presenting that data in text. However, transcription issues are seldom addressed in reports of qualitative research or in discussions of qualitative methodologies. Given that transcripts, although twice removed from the original conversations recorded, are texts central to analysis, it is surprising that little attention has been paid to the transcription process (Lapadat, 2000) . For the most part, transcription continues to be considered a mechanical chore (Agar, 1996; Lapadat & Lindsay, 1999) . The lack of attention paid to the process is related, at least partially, to perceptions that transcription is merely a matter of transferring what was captured on tape to text, a perception entrenched in the field. Connected to this notion oftransference is the assumption that a one-to-one correspondence occurs between the tape and text, that transcribers have captured the reality of the recorded conversation in the transcript (Green, Franquiz, & Dixon, 1997; Mishler, 1991) . Such positivistassumptions supportthe acceptance oftranscripts as authoritative texts that hold certain truths, and maintain that the accuracy of transcripts is dictated by the ability of the person transcribing to sustain an objective stance.  \nMethods ofturning talk into texthave been addressed in the literature in multiple ways that cross disciplinary boundaries (Lapadat & Lindsay, 1999; Ochs, 1979; ten Have, 1997) . In our research on transcription, we critique the naïve realism that leaves unquestioned the possibility of an objective transcriber, and ignores the complexities of transcription, which resemble more the work of translation than thatoftransference (Kvale, 1996; Lapadat& Lindsay, 1999; Poland, 1995","cbCaibwwDsNowQNn","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibwwDsNowQNn","pdf",541478,"English","# Introduction\n## Transcription as an overlooked process\n## From talk to text and questions of realism\n# Methods and Participants\n## Study context and recruitment\n## Central research questions\n# Procedures and Data Handling\n## Quotes, pseudonyms, and confidentiality\n## Editing for clarity and intended meaning\n## Limitations of transcript editing","[{\"question\":\"Why is transcription often neglected in qualitative research reports?\",\"answer\":\"Transcription is commonly viewed as a mechanical task of turning tape into text, supported by assumptions that transcripts correspond one-to-one with recorded conversation and thus hold truths.\"},{\"question\":\"What happens to data trustworthiness when transcription is assigned to someone else?\",\"answer\":\"The article examines how transcription decisions made in situ and the transcribers’ investment in the research influence the transcripts and therefore the trustworthiness of the data used for analysis.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of tasks and participants were involved in the study?\",\"answer\":\"Eight individuals were hired to transcribe research tapes in university contexts, including graduate students hired as research assistants and other non-student hires working under individual contracts.\"}]","Distanced Data: Transcribing Other People’s Research Tapes | PDF",1792083084]