Teaching · For Teachers

Turn written answers into counts you can trust.

Define each code, count the responses that got it and double-code a sample. The builder makes the frequency table, flags weak codes and works out how well two coders agree.

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The codebook

One codebook per open-ended question. 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
A frequency table with percentages, the leading codes, a codebook with definitions and percent agreement between coders.
Who it is for
Teacher-researchers, school leaders, program evaluators and family engagement staff analyzing open-ended answers.
Format
Browser form. One saved codebook per question; printed with the table or as a blank codebook; CSV of codes; 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.
loose answers, sorted into counts
Drawn for this page. A codebook turns a pile of written answers into counts a team can act on, if every code is defined.

How to use it

  1. Read 20 to 30 answers and draft codes with definitions.
  2. Code every answer and count the responses for each code.
  3. Leave what fits nowhere as other, and count it.
  4. Have a colleague code a sample on their own and enter how many matched.
  5. Fix the codes the summary flags, then report the table.

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Coding that holds up

Definitions first

A code without a definition gets applied differently by different people and on different days. One sentence saying what belongs, plus a paraphrased example, keeps it steady.

Agreement

Percent agreement is easy to read; a common target is about 80%. Cohen’s kappa corrects for agreement by chance and is the usual statistic to report alongside it.

Privacy

Keep respondents’ words in your survey tool. This page holds codes, counts and paraphrased examples only.

Sources

  1. Saldaña, J. (2021). The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers (4th ed.). Sage.
  2. O’Connor, C., & Joffe, H. (2020). Intercoder reliability in qualitative research: Debates and practical guidelines. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 19, 1–13.
  3. McHugh, M. L. (2012). Interrater reliability: The kappa statistic. Biochemia Medica, 22(3), 276–282.
  4. Miles, M. B., Huberman, A. M., & Saldaña, J. (2020). Qualitative Data Analysis: A Methods Sourcebook (4th ed.). Sage.

The example question, codes and counts are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.