Teaching · For Teachers

Check the transcript before you code a word of it.

Spot-check a stretch against the audio and go through eight checks. The review gives an accuracy figure and the fixes to make first.

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The transcript review

One record per transcript. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · For Teachers$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
Spot-check accuracy, the fixes to make and a transcript you can code with confidence.
Who it is for
Teacher-researchers, graduate students in education and program evaluators working with interviews.
Format
Browser checklist. One saved record per transcript; printed for your audit trail or as a blank form; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the For Teachers toolkit ($79) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The For Teachers space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
check the words against the voice
Drawn for this page. Every code you assign rests on the transcript, so an error in the words becomes an error in the findings.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with the interview code.
  2. Pick a stretch of a few hundred words and check it word for word against the audio.
  3. Count the words wrong or missing.
  4. Go through each check and mark it.
  5. Make the fixes, then start coding.

Review a transcript

What makes a transcript usable

Automatic transcripts

Speech recognition is fast but makes errors with names, accents, overlapping talk and specialist words. Treat an automatic transcript as a draft to correct against the audio, never as data.

Confidentiality

Replace names, schools and places with codes before a transcript is shared or leaves secure storage, and keep the key that links codes to people separately, as your consent form and research approval describe.

Style

Verbatim keeps fillers, false starts and pauses; clean verbatim removes them. Either can be right, but the choice changes what you can analyze, so state it in your methods.

Sources

  1. McLellan, E., MacQueen, K. M., & Neidig, J. L. (2003). Beyond the qualitative interview: Data preparation and transcription. Field Methods, 15(1), 63–84.
  2. Poland, B. D. (1995). Transcription quality as an aspect of rigor in qualitative research. Qualitative Inquiry, 1(3), 290–310.
  3. Birt, L., Scott, S., Cavers, D., Campbell, C., & Walter, F. (2016). Member checking: A tool to enhance trustworthiness or merely a nod to validation? Qualitative Health Research, 26(13), 1802–1811.
  4. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Protection of Human Subjects, 45 CFR Part 46: privacy and confidentiality of identifiable information.

The example transcript is made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.