Several qualitative research methodologists (Miles & Huberman 1994, Patton 2002) consider the most important part of qualitative research being the inductive approach, or the act of data reduction. During the course of study development, data collection, and data analysis, the researcher continually searched for feedback and developed “categories or dimensions of analysis that emerge from open-ended observations as the inquirer comes to understand the phenomenon being investigated” (Patton, p. 56). Patton (2002) states, “ theories about what is happening in a setting are grounded in and emerge from direct field experience rather than being imposed a priori as is the case in formal hypothesis and theory testing” (p. 56).