Reported are the results of a computer-generated content-analysis procedure with open-ended methodology to identify issues of importance to elementary-education preservice teachers. Based on the findings of this study, computer-generated content analysis is a valuable method for determining concerns from narrative text since the concerns identified in the present study were similar to those found in the literature. However, they were solicited rather than determined through responses to a predetermined set of concerns and were determined by computer-generated word counts rather than human interpretive coding, making them considerably more representative, accurate, and reliable.
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