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Using Software in Qualitative Research: A Step-by-Step Guide
Ann Lewins,Christina Silver +1 more
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This book considers a wide range of tasks and processes in the data management and analysis process, and shows how software can help you at each stage.Abstract:
Using Software in Qualitative Research is an essential introduction to the practice and principles of Computer Assisted Qualitative Data AnalysiS (CAQDAS). The book will help you to choose the most appropriate package for your needs and get the most out of the software once you are using it. This book considers a wide range of tasks and processes in the data management and analysis process, and shows how software can help you at each stage. In the new edition, the authors present three case studies with different forms of data (text, video and mixed data) and show how each step in the analysis process for each project could be supported by software. The new editionis accompanied by an extensive companion website with step-by-step instructions produced by the software developers themselves. Software programmes covered in second edition include the latest versions of: ATLAS.ti DEDOOSE HyperRESEARCH MAXQDA NVivo QDA Miner TRANSANA Ann Lewins and Christina Silver are leading experts in the field of CAQDAS and have trained thousands of students and researchers in using software. Reading this book is like having Ann and Christina at your shoulder as you analyse your data!read more
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Illumination with a Dim Bulb? What do social scientists learn by employing qualitative data analysis software (QDAS) in the service of multi-method designs?
TL;DR: The potential gains and pitfalls of integrating quantitative and qualitative findings into sociological analysis in the context of the growing analytic power of contemporary qualitative data analysis software (QDAS) programs are examined.
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Computational Thinking and Robotics: A Teaching Experience in Compulsory Secondary Education with Students with High Degree of Apathy and Demotivation
TL;DR: In this paper, a practical experience about how to teach computational thinking using robotics is developed, showing the results and evaluation of the lessons on robotics taught to students in their 4th year of compulsory secondary education, and where the students showed a high degree of apathy and demotivation.
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‘Possible selves’ of young people in a mainstream secondary school and a pupil referral unit: a comparison
Deborah Mainwaring,Susan Hallam +1 more
TL;DR: This paper used the psychological construct of "possible self-concepts" to investigate the aspirations of 25 students in Year 11 and found that the school students were more able to provide sub-goal strategies to achieve positive possible selves and could articulate alternatives if their first aspiration eluded them.
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Practical linkages between cultural policy and education policy in promoting a creative workforce for youth in Tanzania
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors contribute to understanding how the relationships between culture, employment and education can help Tanzania's young people secure jobs, and survive in the creative workforce so as to better their future.