Qualitative Data Analysis Software:

The Good the Bad and the Ugly

To prepare for my presentation to discuss some of the benefits and pitfalls of qualitative data analysis software, do the following:

1. Read the PowerPoint by Michelle C. Bligh, Ph.D. Using Qualitative Data Analysis Software
Claremont Graduate University March 18, 2005

It provides a great general overview of qualitative software.
Further (optional) reading could include:

If you visit either of the following, you goal would be to better familiarize yourself with the notion of coding in qualitative research and the notion of “grounded theory”.[If the links don't work, copy and past them into your browser]

A. Codebook Development for Team-Based Qualitative Analysis
Kathleen M. MacQueen, Eleanor McLellan, Kelly Kay and Bobby Milstein http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/software/pubs/codebook.pdf

B. Bobbi A. Kerlin, Ph.D. Chapter 6 On Coding http://kerlins.net/bobbi/research/nudist/coding/strategies.html

2. Click here to go to Atlas/ti to download a Free Trial Version of the software. http://www.atlasti.com/download.php

3. If you have any ethnographic notes, bring them. We will spend some time in class downloading them into your version of Atlas/ti and do some coding activities.

NOTE: To facilitate easy coding, it is easiest if you use block paragraphing in your note taking.

That is, rather than indenting, skip a line to start a new paragraph (like I did here).

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