QDA Faculty Seminar Session One

QDA Faculty Seminar Session One

Introducing Qualitative Data Analysis

Summer 2005

Participants
Michael Longan                      Lissa Yogan                Zhenhu Jin
Alan Kraft                               Jan Westrick                Dan Arkkelin
Jim Nelson                              Jim Nelson's RA         Dawn Jegllum Bartusch

Lorri Petties Rachel Parroquin

Goals for this session

1. Get to know each other and our research interests and projects.

2. Discuss the nature of qualitative research and QDA Software

3. Be prepared to set up a project in NVivo

Readings: Carvajal, Welsh, QSR materials help files

Homework for next time: Work through tutorials and set up a project in NVivo

Questions for Discussion

Introductions

What kind of research do you do?

What is your experience with Qualitative research methods and QDA software?

What project(s) are you currently working on and what are the questions that drive it? What kind of data do you have?

What do you want to get out of this seminar? What questions do you want answered about qualitative research?

The nature of QDA and Software

What is qualitative research? What are its special challenges and what opportunities does it offer?

What are the important research tasks/needs in qualitative research?

What can QDA software do and what are its limitations?

Why is it important to match your research methods to the software?

What is Grounded Theory and how is it “built into” NVivo?

Questions about setting up a project in NVivo

How do you format documents for import into NVivo?

How do you use proxy documents?

What are document attributes?

How can you organize documents into sets?

What are memos?