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Software Tools for Qualitative Research

In RSCH 8301, you used NVivo software to assist with organizing and coding data you collected. However, you may be wondering if that is the only software package available to qualitative researchers and whether you even need to use a software package for your Dissertation.

Consider the Discussion topic for this week on organizing and tracking data as well as the Dissertation Rubric criteria on these topics.

To prepare for this Application:

·  Review this week's required readings about computer programs available for qualitative research.

·  Investigate software packages other than NVivo that are available to qualitative researchers.

·  Select at least two software packages and compare them to NVivo.

·  Do you believe you will need to use a software package for your dissertation? If so, would any of the three software tools you investigated for this assignment be appropriate? Why?

The assignment:

·  Craft a 3- to 4-page paper in which you do the following:

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o  Compare and contrast software tools for managing and analyzing qualitative data.

o  Conclude by stating whether you believe you will need to use a software package for your dissertation and, if so, whether any of the three software tools analyzed in this assignment would be appropriate.

Required Resources

·  Course Text: Qualitative Data Analysis: A Methods Sourcebook

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o  Chapter 2, "Research and Design Management," pp. 45–52

o  Chapter 6, "Methods of Exploring," pp. 124-128

o  Appendix, "An Annotated Bibliography of Qualitative Research Resources"In Chapter 2, read the sections on "Management Issues Bearing on Analysis," "Computer Use," "Data Management," and "Staffing and Time Planning." In the excerpt from Chapter 6, you will learn about the early steps in data analysis, including the completion of a contact summary sheet, with an example provided. The Appendix gives information about the types of computer programs you might use for qualitative data analysis.

·  Course Text: Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches

o  Review from last week: Chapter 7, "Data Collection"

o  Chapter 8, "Data Analysis and Representation," pp. 164–173Chapter 7 explores the key concepts of the data collection process, including the data collection circle, access and rapport, sampling strategy, forms of data, recording procedures, field issues, and storing data. This reading is a review from Week 6. The excerpt from Chapter 8 provides a comparison of the five approaches and describes computer use in qualitative data analysis.

Research Toolkit

·  Handouts

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o  Walden Dissertation Rubric
Available from http://researchcenter.waldenu.edu/
The Dissertation Rubric is a Word document linked in the section for PhD Dissertation Process and Documents.

o  Walden Qualitative DissertationsThis document directs you to dissertations in the Walden Library that use a variety of qualitative approaches and disciplines.

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Running Head: QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS

Comparison of Nvivo with HyperRESEARCH and Atlas.ti tools
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QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS
Introduction
Data analysis is essential in understanding the findings of the research, as it helps to form
patterns from the base data. The data collected from the research depends on the nature of the
study, whether qualitative or quantitative. Most popular data analysis software such as SPSS can
only analyze data obtained from a quantitative research. To make it easy to analyze data from
qualitative studies, several tools have been developed. Such tools include Nvivo,
HyperRESEARCH, and Atlas.ti. Each of the qualitative data analysis has its strengths and
weaknesses, factors that the data analyst should consider prior to choosing one tool over the
other. In this paper, the three tools are analyzed for their strengths and weaknesses.
a. Ease of use
The ease of using a data analysis tool is essential to be considered since it determines the
skill level required for the use to be able to work with the tool. While the three tools have
varying levels of complexity, Nvivo is the most demanding of them all. The extensive use
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