Maxqda 2007 Serial5/7/2021
This methodological dualism is related to the trend of declaring the application of GTM procedures, while simultaneously resorting to other methodological bases for research; thus, it seems to indicate a certain inconsistency in exploiting a specific research method.Above all it provides attendees with the environment to go beyond the practicalities of learning and using software, where they can meet like-minded individuals who are on a similar research path.
During the informal sections of the conference (before, between, and after sessions), one can equally share personal research experiences to new-to- Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS) researchers and hear from the legendary names in the qualitative and mixed methods literature. Without. Therefore, how does adopting computer - assisted qualitative data analysis software affect our research activities and, more importantly, our conception of research These questions are explored by examining the influence NVivo had upon an interdisciplinary phenomenological research project in health ethics. We identify the softwares effects and situate our decision to use it within the Canadian health sciences research landscape. We also explore the challenges of remaining true to our projects philosophical foundations, as well as how NVivo altered our being-in- the-world as researchers. This case demonstrates McLUHANs claim that new technologies invariably initiate new practices and modes of being, and urges researchers to attend to how we are both shaping and being shaped by software. In Croatia, the CAQDAS community is very small and is dominated by problems of great expectations coming from early-career researchers. This is elaborated through a case study that addresses issues of spread and availability of CAQDAS, opportunity for its usage, reasons why early-career researchers decide to use it or not and grounds for their decisions for use of a particular software package. The perceived advantages and limitations of CAQDAS are analysed and some misconceptions about CAQDAS are contextualised and related to the dominant quantitative research framework in Croatian sociology. The broadening of the number of qualitative researchers in the sociological community in Croatia, together with more educational programmes on CAQDAS, which would highlight reflexive usage of software, open perspectives for strengthening of qualitative research in Croatia. One interesting example is to have top-level codes called broad-based codes, emergent codes, and sensitizing concepts, and then later to reorganize subcodes from within those categories into different sets of codes (with sets or families). Various factors that influence a coding scheme (such as its relationship with a theoretical framework) as well as guiding principles for developing coding schemes are also included. ![]() As qualitative data requires an understanding of the meaning of the texts which are commonly iterative, bulky, dense, recursive, complex and dynamic, the continuous modification and enhancement of CAQDAS are necessary to assist the interpretive philosophers to interpret the world they live better. The key development in CAQDAS was the introduction of software that could manage the coding and retrieval of texts of the transcribed data. Furthermore, some of the software features can also provide a variety of facilities to help the analyst examine features and relationships in the texts to develop the theoretical ideas. Weitzman and Miles (1995) summarised the categories of CAQDAS as in Table 2. This aspect of file management was the single most common reported problem during the 3 month period of helpline logging (the help-line only saw the problems rather than the routine successes). Such problems were usually resolvable, but often quite complicated to fix especially for those users whose general computer awareness was low. Though these problems are purely practical in nature, the delays and anxieties they have caused have been considerable. On rare occasions projects became unworkable or weeks of work were lost because of unsystematic saving or inherent software problems in project transferral routines. The way computer - assisted qualitative data analysis is applied (by those who declare that grounded theory methodology is a significant point of reference) often deviates from the directives of that method. At the same time, the group of responses specifying particular research methods used by Polish researchers who employ computer programs assisting the qualitative data analysis process included discourse analysis, phenomenology, interpretative approach, anthropological approach, symbolic interactionism, and social constructivism.
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