CAQDAS
Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software
This page presents a number of software packages that you might find useful for qualitative data analysis.
Each program offers a Tutorial to help you get started, but they are not always very easy to use in a group.
Examples of some of the commonly used softwares are: Atlas.ti, HyperRESEARCH V.2.06, MAXqda, N6, QSR NVivo, Qualrus.
The following website provides a comprehensive comparative reviews of some of these softwares. http://onlineqda.hud.ac.uk/Which_software/reviews-of-sw.php
QSR Nvivo 7
If you want to use NVivo 7, http://www.lynrichards.org/HQD_Tutorials.htm offers access to self-teaching tutorials and access to a global network of people using the package
Atlas.ti
If you want to use Atlas.ti then you might find the following series of powerpoints by Laura Jeffery useful. These have been used in workshops to intensively train people in the basics of the program (in 2 days) or teaching the program and developing the codes and doing some practice coding on a data-set collected by the participants (5 days). Even if you are not using Atlas.ti you may find the 5 sections covered by the slides useful for you to adapt for your own teaching.
- Section 1: Data Management - Hermeneutic Units and Primary Documents
- Section 2: Coding Frame
- Section 3: Quotations and coding in practice
- Section 4: Data Analysis - Families
- Section 5: Advanced Functions
Singal, N., and Jeffery, R. (2008). Qualitative Research Skills Workshop: A Facilitator's Reference Manual, http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/RECOUP, Cambridge: RECOUP (Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty, http://recoup.educ.cam.ac.uk/). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. (original page)
