Posts tagged qualitative
Software Programs for Qualitative Data Analysis by Dr. Patricia Fusch

A qualitative software system should be intuitive, quick to learn, address the planned research analysis, and should assist in visually identifying constructs and theories. The software program should be reasonably priced which includes the time and effort to learn the program. The contemporary qualitative software analysis programs/Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) appear to be intuitive and provide more features.  A software programs that the researcher uses should include codes for descriptive labels to sort for patterns, identify outliers, and identify constructs and themes.

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Choosing Case Study Design as Your First, Best Choice by Dr. Patricia Fusch

Case studies are the preferred strategy used by researchers when asking how, what, or why questions. These types of studies identify and explore operational links between events over time. Case studies may be exploratory, explanatory, or descriptive and may involve one organization and location or multiple organizations and locations for a comparative case study. case study design, data saturation is reached far sooner because the research is bounded in time and space. If one wants to explore causal relationships in a qualitative design then case study is the first, best choice.

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