Administrative structure and learner autonomy in open education: coding data and scripts
Description
Data and scripts for a comparative document analysis of the administrative steps that one semester (autumn 2026) places on a continuing student in four Turkish open education faculties (Anadolu, Atatürk, Ankara and İstanbul universities) and the UK Open University. Data file 1 (Excel) contains the coding matrix of 15 semester steps and three items for disabled and incarcerated students, with the code and documentary source for each cell; the masked coding units; both coders’ codes and the agreement statistics; the cells changed after the reliability round; a search log for cells without a provision; and Ateşman readability counts for the Turkish excerpts. Data file 2 contains two Python scripts that reproduce the agreement and readability statistics from Data file 1, with their expected output. All sources are publicly available institutional documents; no personal data are included.
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Steps to reproduce
Download Data file 1 (Excel workbook) and Data file 2 (text file). Install Python 3 and the openpyxl package (pip install openpyxl). From Data file 2, save the two scripts under the file names given in their headings, agreement.py and readability.py, in the same folder as Data file 1. Run python3 agreement.py IRRODL_data_1.xlsx to reproduce the percentage agreement and Cohen’s kappa between the two coders. Run python3 readability.py IRRODL_data_1.xlsx to reproduce the Ateşman readability scores by faculty and by type of document. Compare each output with the expected output printed below the script in Data file 2. To trace any code in the article to its source, open the Matrix sheet of Data file 1. It gives the code, a summary of the provision and the document and section for every cell, and the Source key sheet gives each document’s address. The Changes sheet lists the seven cells recoded after the reliability round, and the Search log records what was searched for cells without a provision.