An Examination of Students' Metaphorical Perceptions of Universal Design across Different Faculties
Description
This dataset accompanies the study “An Examination of Students' Metaphorical Perceptions of Universal Design across Different Faculties.” It contains anonymized qualitative data collected from 202 university students at Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University during the 2024–2025 academic year. Participants completed an open-ended prompt (“Universal Design is like … because …”) to express their metaphorical perceptions of universal design (UD). The dataset includes participants’ demographic information and written metaphor statements. Each entry provides the following variables: Order, Faculty, Age, Gender, Grade, Metaphor, and Explanation of Metaphor. The dataset represents the raw responses as collected from participants and was used in the related study to examine students’ metaphorical perceptions of universal design.
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The data were gathered using a descriptive qualitative method based on a phenomenological approach. Participants were 202 university students from different faculties at Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University. Data were collected through an open-ended written form that prompted participants to complete the sentence “Universal Design is like … because …”. The data collection took place during class sessions in the spring semester of the 2024–2025 academic year. Students participated voluntarily and anonymously. The written responses were compiled into a dataset including demographic variables (faculty, age, gender, grade) and participants’ metaphor statements and explanations. No software, reagents, or digital instruments were used in data collection. The procedure can be replicated by administering the same open-ended prompt to a similar participant group and recording their written responses for qualitative analysis.
Institutions
- Abant Izzet Baysal Universitesi