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NVivo for Qualitative Research

NVivo for Qualitative Research. C. Candace Chou, Ph.D Department of Curriculum and Instruction School of Education University of St. Thomas ccchou@stthomas.edu. Topics. What it is What it does What it doesn’t do What kinds of research have been done using NVivo?

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NVivo for Qualitative Research

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  1. NVivo for Qualitative Research • C. Candace Chou, Ph.D • Department of Curriculum and Instruction • School of Education • University of St. Thomas • ccchou@stthomas.edu

  2. Topics • What it is • What it does • What it doesn’t do • What kinds of research have been done using NVivo? • What kinds of research data are appropriate for Nvivo?

  3. What it is • A computer-based tool for qualitative data analysis • Help researchers to • seek new understanding of a situation, experience or process • Manage and sort ”unstructured” data • Code texts, find patterns,

  4. What It Does and Doesn’t Do • What it does • Search and sort text • Link, visualize & store data • What it doesn’t do • Teach research method • Run statistical analysis • Collect data or improve the quality of your data • Code or interpret your data

  5. Sample Projects • Patterns of Online Interaction in distance education • Perception of special education students • Stereotypical images of minority groups in K-12 system • Literature Review Summary of arguments, Themes, Own comments, Quotations

  6. What do qualitative researchers want to do with data? • What sort of questions? • Theory-seeking, making-sense, pattern-finding. • What sort of data exploration? • Managing complexity, bringing in context, showing diversity. • What sort of answers? • Rigorously argued, vividly illustrated, exploring alternatives, justifying claims.

  7. What are you trying to do? • What do you want to do with the data? • how to manage it? • how to store it? • how to search it? • code it? How? • What sort of data? Observation, interviews, document analysis, literature review, field notes, transcripts, scanned documents

  8. Questions to Ask Before The Coding Process • Theoretical Framework • Hypotheses or Research Questions • Coding scheme • Creative coding (free nodes) • Descriptive coding (known variables) • Unit of Analysis

  9. Working with documents • Why code? • creative coding records ideas from the data and links to where they came from • descriptive coding records things you know about people, sites, cases etc. • Save files as Rich Text format (RTF) or plain text • Free download • No time limit but can’t save any projects • http://www.qsr.com.au/DemoReg/DemoReg1.asp

  10. References • Modified from Lyn Richards slides on “Computing Qualitative Research with QSR NUD*IST rev4” • Engel, C. (2003). Qualitative data analysis with Nvivo (http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/ANTRO/archives/000118.html)

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