Technical Features of Interest to Repertory Grid Users

 

Construct Development

Set up a Session Using Pre-prepared Resources

• Select purpose statement from resource file or enter directly and display
• Enter element class
• Select element creation questions from file, edit or add and display
• Select elements from resource file or enter directly, edit or add and display or, if element creation questions used
• Enter elements in response to element creation questions
• Set elements discrete or non discrete
• Select purpose statement from resource file or enter directly and display

Add a Construct

• Automatic formatting of construct creation prompts to include elements and qualifiers
• Automatic random selection of element triads
• Manual selection of element triads
• Presentation of element triads in different orders at random
• Change qualifier as required
• Presentation of session purpose as required
• Mark construct for further consideration later
• Multiple construct formation
• Simulation of Elements as cards
• Optional addition of constructs without related elements

Element rating

• Formatted prompts
• Step through constructs forward or backward
• Set rating range (min 1, max 7)
• Set element rating to value in range or Not Applicable
• List of elements with ratings
• Navigation information
• Edit constructs and/or add constructs during rating

Customise construct list

• Marked constructs only
• Constructs in Priority order
• Include elements
• Include archived constructs
• Include archived elements
• Output list to rich text file for word processing

Input and display of optional session details

• Session title
• Company name
• Interviewee
• Interviewer
• Comments
• Statistics - dates, numbers of constructs and elements, etc
• View purpose of session

Laddering up - Strategy 1 (Considering importance of distinction)

• Formatted laddering prompt including construct
• Laddering entry
• Continue to next level (to maximum of 3 levels)
• Add a new construct
• Show purpose or qualifiers
• Mark for further consideration later
• Step through constructs forwards or backwards
• Used marked and/or high priority constructs only
• Indicator of construct type - primary, secondary, derived

Laddering up - Strategy 2 (Based on construct pole preference)

• Formatted laddering prompt including construct
• Preferred construct pole selection
  • Formatted laddering prompt including construct
  • Continue to next level (to maximum of 3 levels)
  • Add a new construct
  • Show purpose or qualifiers
  • Mark for further consideration later
• Show qualifiers
• Step through constructs forwards or backwards
• Used marked and/or high priority constructs only
• Indicator of construct type - primary, secondary, derived

Ladder Down

• A choice of formatted laddering prompts including construct and qualifier choice
• Construct entry fields
• Show purpose
• Step through constructs forwards or backwards
• Used marked and/or high priority constructs only
• Indicator of construct type - primary, secondary, derived
• Mark for further consideration later
• Continue to next level

Add a new element

Element deletion

• Delete unused elements
• Erase all elements to XXXX to protect interviewee

Change and Prioritise Construct

• Construct presentation and edit fields
• Step through constructs forwards or backwards
• Mark or unmark
• Prioritise high, medium or low

Delete Construct

• Present construct
• Step through constructs forwards or backwards
• Delete current construct
• Delete all constructs

Construct Analysis

• Horizontal and vertical zoom
• View element detail selecting from analysis graph (left mouse click)
• View construct detail including reversal selecting from analysis graph (left mouse click)
• Select Elements from analysis graph for differentiation (right mouse click) - differentiation processes listed below
• Select Constructs from analysis graph for differentiation (right mouse click) - differentiation processes listed below
• List elements in sorted order
• List constructs in sorted order and reversed if appropriate

Element and Construct Differentiation

• Selection of elements or constructs for differentiation
• Selection of correlation range to differentiate (higher than or lower than)
• Automatic step through element or construct correlations in set range

Highly correlated elements (discrete)

• Correlation prompt
• Show purpose
• Differentiation if not similar - Add construct
• Add construct prompt
• Element display and construct entry fields
• Show purpose or qualifiers
• Rate new construct
  • Construct display
  • Element and rating list
  • Set element rating

Highly correlated elements (non-discrete)

• Correlation prompt
• Choice to offer a fresh element to combine
  • List existing elements
  • Prompt with elements to combine
  • Replacement element entry field
  • Show purpose
  • Show element class
  • Rate replacement element
    • Step through constructs forward and backward providing rating prompt
    • Display replacement element
    • Rate replacement element
• Choice to offer a new construct
  • Add construct prompt
  • Display highly correlated elements
  • Construct entry fields
  • Show purpose
  • Show qualifiers
  • Add another new construct
  • Rate new construct
    • Element rating prompts
    • List elements with ratings
    • Rate elements
• Leave in place

Highly correlated constructs

• Correlation prompt
• Choice to offer a fresh construct to combine
  • Display highly correlated constructs
  • Entry fields for replacement construct
  • Show purpose or qualifiers
  • Rate elements against new construct
    • Display rating prompts
    • Element and rating list
    • Set element rating
• Choice to offer a new element
  • Display prompt
  • Display existing elements
  • Entry field for new element
• Leave in place

Poorly correlated elements

• Correlation prompt
• Show purpose
• Delete element
• Differentiation if not different - Add construct
  • Add construct prompts
  • New construct entry fields
  • Step through existing constructs forwards or backwards
  • Show purpose
  • Show qualifiers
  • Add additional constructs
  • Rate new construct
    • Display construct rating prompts
    • List elements with ratings
    • Rate elements

Poorly correlated constructs

• Correlation prompt
• Show purpose
• Delete construct
• Differentiation if not different - Add elements
  • Add element prompts
  • Step through constructs forwards or backwards
  • List existing elements
  • Show purpose
  • Add additional elements
  • Rate new elements
    • Step through constructs forwards or backwards for rating against new element
    • Display new elements

Construct Rating Review

• List all constructs with rating against each element
• Step through elements in turn
• Change any rating
• Rating change immediately reflected in Analysis View if open

Resource Development (Purpose, qualifier, element or element creation question)

Add resource

Delete individual resource

Delete all resources in resource file

Element Development using element creation questions

• Display element creation question
• Step through questions forwards or backwards
• Enter elements and display element list
• Delete element

Verify elements against a set of rules

• Enter elements and display element list
• Display element verification rules
• Step through verification rules forwards or backwards
• Delete element

Miscellaneous Facilities

• Scratchpad readily available
• Context sensitive helps
• Tutorial help
• Pop up helps on dialog box controls
• All open views updated dynamically as data entered
• Set dialog pop up helps on/off
• Set time out on initial splash screen
• Set zoom on dendritic analysis graph
• Standard windows control
• Standard windows printing and print preview

Files Created

• Session including all constructs developed, elements, archives, other resources and user information
• Purpose
• Qualifier
• Element
• Element creation question
• HTML file of constructs
• Export to XML file for use in other supported software
• Rating matrix

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