[nabs-l] Analyzing Qualitative Data

Sun Mar 12 14:28:34 UTC 2017

Oh, qualitative, I'm transposing the word quantitative.  You probably don't
need software if it's not math oriented.  
Justin

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Hello Elif.
I'm Rilind, and I completed my B/A in Psychology with a thesis on academic
performance and Self-efficacy. For qualitative research, I did not use any
software. I believe there are some and Based on my textbook Exploring
Research there a few, I'll quote a brief paragraph at the end (cited in APA
of course. I'll also give some advice. Hopefully it will help. 
I didn't use software at the time though and honestly this research is so
personal that in my view you have to know the data well in order to analyze
it. 
Based on my textbook Exploring Research Edition some of the software types
include QSR,, N6 which can allow you to code research categories and search
for textual patterns and report generating data.;.
The paragraph in my textbook at the end of chapter seven reads """Research
tools to help qualitative researchers were slow in coming, but they have
recently become very sophisticated tools that greatly assist the tasks
associated with the magnitude and potential complexity of large, qualitative
data sets. QSR International (_
International) sells various software packages such as Scrapbook. Among the
most popular (and one of the first but constantly improved) is N6 (which
used to be called NUD*IST). With this software, you can do such things as
work in plain text and automate clerical tasks, such as importing and coding
research data, searching for text or coding patterns, or generat¬ing
reports. They also market NVivo (which comes in a student edition), which
allows the user to import, create and edit documents, code and annotate
text, link project documents to one another (such as video and audio files),
search for relationships between text, and create models of the user's data.

Another program from ResearchWare (at http://www.researchware.com/) is
HyperRESEARCH, which allows coding, analysis, and organization of data.
HyperRESEARCH comes in a Mac version as well as a Windows version, and the
company is considering generating a Linux version."
" (Salkind, 2012: 226).
Below I'll discuss what helped me in my own research however.
I sent you what I found in my textbook about software. I know little else
about them including if they're free as I didn't need them in my research.
However, what I found helped the most was a good method of analysis. In my
case, I had done my research on self-efficacy and academic performance. In
order to analyze the data, I had created themes for the various questions
that were asked in the qualitative interviews, and divided up the analysis
section of the research in to those different themes. For each question
itself however, I compiled a file for each individual question with all the
individual answers to each question, (placing the participant's
characteristics beside each question.
For instance, mine were what were defined as high GPA and low GPA. I then
analyzed each question's answers by indicating the incite gained from the
participant's answers to each question for each category of participants,
and analyzed and compared it with the literature in the field (which would
be the literature in the lit review).
I'll try to put this in a list form so it's easier.
1.	Divide your questions in to categories, ideally the
themes/categories being the ones that are in your literature review.
2.	Create a file for each qualitative question, and in that file copy
and paste each answer to that particular question (answers to question 1,
answers to question 2, etc.) In this way, when you are analysing the data,
you will be able to open each question file separately and won't have to
scan each participant's file every time you are analyzing a new question.
3.	
Categorise these answers to each question, those of question 1, those of
question 2, etc., in to the various categories you are measuring. If you
aren't measuring categories then this doesn't apply.
4.	In your analysis comment on the findings of each category for each
question, comparing it to the literature. Also, as my thesis advisor said,
it is okay to make some conclusions at the end. Biggest tip I have in that
section, try to use the words connections, associations, and descriptive
links, as if you are in a situation where you have a committee that is
dealing with the thesis and has members who are more in the quantitative
field they will point out that you can't use the word 
5.	Correlations etc, even if you are obviously using it in a
qualitative sense.
Of course, in the report itself the info will be confidential and you won't
likely include names, etc., the categorising is to help your personal
analysis for the report.
I hope this helps:  Message here if you have any questions or feel free to
email me at Dragoshi11 at hotmail.com also if you want.
Thanks:
Rilind.

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   1. CItation managers and Jaws or NVDA (Kaiti Shelton)
   2. Re: Music App on Iphone 6 (Kaiti Shelton)
   3. 50th Anniversary Committee (Shannon Cantan)
   4. Re: FW: Analyzing Qualitative Data with Software (Elif Emir ?ks?z)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 15:03:04 -0500
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Hi all,

Sorry for the cross-posting, but I'm hoping to find any answers there might
be to my questions fairly quickly.  I'm no worse off if nothing comes from
this discussion, but it would be really helpful with a project I'm working
on if information about accessibility and using these software
programs/methods is out there.

First, I'm wondering if anyone has experience using Mendeley for organizing
citations with Jaws or NVDA.  What about End Note or Zotero?  I'm hoping
Mendeley is usable as I'm on a student budget, but if End Note or Zotero are
markedly more accessible, I'd be interested in trying them.  My Jaws is 13,
but my NVDA is up-to-date.

Second, I'm about to make a matrix for organizing and analyzing my sources.
I was thinking of just doing this in excel, but if there are better/more
accessible methods for this organization I'd love to hear them before I put
the time into making a huge matrix.  I have 11 sources so far, but still
have time to gather books and articles from related fields.

The study I'm designing has the aim of identifying barriers in training for
blind undergraduate music therapy students, as well as the accommodations
that could be made for them in their clinical training to optimize training
outcomes.  The assignment for this class is to complete a perspectus and the
literature review, so the study will be well on its way to being organized
by the time we leave school and can be presented to graduate schools if/when
we apply.  Having methods for managing my citations and organizing my
information will be helpful, as due to the literature gap in my field I'm
pulling resources from disability studies, psychology, and education from
journals I'm not very familiar with.  Any suggestions or feedback based on
professional/student research experiences would be appreciated.

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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 15:08:21 -0500
From: Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com>
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Hi Vejas,

To echo David Andrews, I suspect that is the case as well.
Sometimeseven if you double-tap and just accidentally hit a second finger on
the screen once, the IPhone will take that as a two-finger double-tap.  I
just tested it after making sure my music app was closed, and it shuffled my
library automatically.

Another possibility might be that Siri is picking up on noise.
Sometimes, if my phone is in my pocket or a bag, the home button might get
pressed and SIri will pick up on speech it hears around.  I've pulled my
phone out of my bag to find it playing music before, and suspect that is the
case.  Sometimes if you have headphones in and the play button on the remote
is pressed, the play button could start your music playing, too.

HTH

On 3/8/17, David Andrews via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> The command to start and stop music is a two-finger double tap.  This 
> has happened to me, and I suspect you issued the command somehow 
> without realizing it.
>
>
> Dave
>
> At 12:11 AM 3/8/2017, you wrote:
>>Hi All,
>>I have a question related to the I-Phone and was wondering if this 
>>might be a Voice-Over issue or if anyone has experienced this.
>>Sometimes, for no apparent reason, a track that I did not select will 
>>play when I am not even in the music app.  When I tried to close the 
>>music app in the app-switcher, I saw that I had not even had the music 
>>app open.  Does anyone know how I might be able to fix  this?
>>Thanks,
>>Vejas
>
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 16:25:43 -1000
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Aloha students,

As a reminder, the inaugural meeting for the NABS 50th Anniversary Committee
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 21:27:00 -0500
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Hello Elizabeth,
Thank you very very much for digging into the list-serve archive, and
sharing it with me. It was really helpful.
I think I may go into coding by hand instead of trying bunch of
options. This post from Arielle encouraged me to do that.
I am still collecting data. I will try and see.
Have a great weekend.

On 3/9/17, Elizabeth Mohnke via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello Elif,
>
> Here is the post I found that was posted by Arielle Silverman in regards
to
> analyzing qualitative data. Perhaps you might find this post to be
helpful.
> However, if you are specifically looking to use a computer program to help
> you analyze your qualitative data, I would suggest contacting Cindy
Bennett.
> I believe she would be able to suggest a computer program that would be
the
> most accessible, and would most likely be able to help you figure out how
to
> successfully use the computer program with a screen reader.
>
> I hope this information helps you analyze the qualitative data for your
> research project.
>
> Warm regards,
> Elizabeth
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> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Analyzing Qualitative Data with Software
>
> Hi Cindy,
> I have little experience with qualitative data and have never used
> qualitative software. However, I recently prepared a qualitative summary
of
> some focus group data by hand, and it was a very manageable task. My
> colleague coded the same data using software and our reports were quite
> similar. So I'm not convinced that qualitative software is actually
> required, and if it carries accessibility hassles, then coding by hand
might
> end up being easier. Basically coding just involves creating categories
> based on common themes you observe in the transcript and then going
through
> and assigning each participant comment to one of the categories you
create.
> I think the software may help visually organize the data, but I'm not sure
> how much benefit you would actually get from using software, unless you
need
> to use it for a qualitative software class. Others with mor qualitative
> experience thanI might be able to comment further.
> Best Arielle
>
> On 3/12/15, Cindy Bennett via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Has anyone ever used a software to assist in analyzing their
>> qualitative data? If so, I would love to hear from you before trying a
>> bunch of options that may or may not be accessible.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> Cindy Bennett
>> 1st Year Ph.D. Student, University of Washington Human Centered Design
>> and Engineering
>>
>> Treasurer of the National Federation of the Blind of Washington an
>> Affiliate of the National Federation of the Blind
>>
>> clb5590 at gmail.com
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 21:30:27 -0500
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Thank you Elizabet. I don't have to use a software, so I think I won't
try it now.
Thank you for detailed response.
I may contact Cindy in the future to she what she did.
Warmly
Elif

On 3/9/17, Elizabeth Mohnke via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello Elif,
>
> I think it can be easy to confuse qualitative data with quantitative data
as
> I tend to do it myself even though I know the difference between these two
> types of data.
>
> Unless you are being required to use computer software to analyze the data
> for your research project, it may be possible to analyze your data without
> using computer software. If I recall correctly, I remember Cindy Bennett
> asking the same question a while ago. I think Arielle Silverman posted a
> good response about how to analyze qualitative data without using computer
> software. Let me see if I can find her response to this question.
>
> However, if you are specifically looking to use computer software to
analyze
> your qualitative data, I would suggest that you contact Cindy Bennett at
> clb5590 at gmail.com to see what program would be the most accessible.
>
> So far my qualitative research projects have been rather small, so I do
not
> have any personal experience using any computer software programs to
analyze
> my data.
>
> Warm regards,
> Elizabeth
>
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> Cc: Elif Emir ?ks?z <filerime at gmail.com>
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>
> no this is about words instead of numbers.
> but thanks for your reply
>
> On 3/8/17, Justin Williams via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Oh, I associated what you were doing with stats, maybe I'm wrong.
>>  Justin
>>
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>> ?ks?z
>> via NABS-L
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 6:41 PM
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>> Cc: Elif Emir ?ks?z <filerime at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] qualitative research software
>>
>> Hmm I use SPSS a lot but never used or heard about it for a qualitative
>> research.
>> Thanks for your reply Justin.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/8/17, Justin Williams via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> SASS or SPSS I think, but Ask Arielle because she is more familiar
>>> with this than I am.
>>>  Justin
>>>
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>>> Subject: [nabs-l] qualitative research software
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I am about to analyse qualitative data. Does anyone know an accessible
>>> software to do that? If you just use Word and Excel, if you developed
>>> any methods, would you please share it with me?
>>> Or if you use something different, please let me know.
>>> Thanks in advance.
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