Seda, This qualitative literature wiki and paper summarize what we found in 2009. LINK TO THE QUAL LITERATURE WIKI: http://qual-reading.wikispaces.com/Articles "Rigor and flexibility in computer-based qualitative research: Introducing the Coding Analysis Toolkit" Volume 2, Issue 1, June 2008 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIPLE RESEARCH APPROACHES Chi-Jung Lu and Stuart W Shulman LINK TO THE PAPER: http://www.umass.edu/qdap/IJMRA.pdf ABSTRACT Software to support qualitative research is both revered and reviled. Over the last few decades, users and skeptics have made competing claims about the utility, usability and ultimate impact of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software packages. This paper provides an overview of the debate and introduces a new web-based Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT). It argues that knowledgeable, well-designed research using qualitative software is a pathway to increasing rigor and flexibility in research. Keywords: qualitative research; data analysis software; content analysis; multiple coders; annotation; adjudication; inter-rater reliability; tools On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:18 AM, Seda Guerses <sguerses@esat.kuleuven.be>wrote:
todd harper from the list commented that what we are doing can also be seen as a meta-analysis of a discipline
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