This workshop is designed for the Graduate School of Education participants in Professor Erin Murphy Graham's Introduction to Qualitative Methods course. This workshop is about how to approach the qualitative analysis process. Once you have your data, organization is the first step to analysis. We will discuss several approaches to organizing your data and how you can use a Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) software, like NVivo, in that process.
The training will highlight the key decisions that researchers must make about the unit of analysis, coding approach, and relevancy of the data, while demonstrating the key components of NVivo (folders, codes, memos, attributes, and output).
More specifically, the training will address:
- Setting up folders
- Adding attributes
- Setting up codes
- Deductive/inductive coding
- Unit of analysis
- Looking at output for codes
- Running simple queries (one code) by folder and by attribute
- Creating memos
This training will also cover how you can use different tools in NVivo to create data output that is useful in your analysis process.
The training will delve into the details of:
- Broad vs. fine grain coding
- Advanced queries including Boolean queries using and, or, not; matrix queries; coding comparison for group coding; word frequencies; and compound queries
