Qualitative data analysis : explorations with NVivo /

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Author / Creator:	Gibbs, Graham, 1948-
Imprint:	Buckingham [Eng] ; Philadelphia, Pa. : Open University, ©2002.
Description:	xxiv, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Understanding social research Understanding social research.
Subject:	Social sciences -- Data processing. Social sciences -- Research. Qualitative research. Qualitative research. Social sciences -- Data processing. Social sciences -- Research.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11960198

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ISBN:	0335200842 (spiral) 0335200850 (cased) 0335200850 9780335200856 0335200842 9780335200849
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250) and index.
Summary:	"For many years, social cognition models have been at the forefront of research into predicting and explaining health behaviours. Until recently, there have been few attempts to go beyond prediction and understanding to "intervention"--But now the position has changed, and a number of excellent interventions have been set up. The purpose of this book is to bring them together in one volume." "There are nine chapters each addressing a particular behaviour or set of behaviours. The chapters follow a common structure: a presentation of the "epidemiological facts" about the behaviour and why an intervention was needed; an outline of the way in which the theoretical model being used was adapted for the intervention; a presentation of the experimental results; and a discussion of their theoretical and practical implications. The book ends with a chapter of commentary on the challenges of devising theory-based interventions."--Jacket.

Table of Contents:

List of tables
List of figures
Step-by-step guides
Series editor's foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. What is qualitative analysis?
What are qualitative data?
The two-paradigms approach
Contrasting logic
Strategies of qualitative research
Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis
The quality of qualitative research
Conclusion
Further reading
2. Getting started with NVivo
Documents and nodes
New project
Backing up
Job Search project
The Document Explorer
The Document Browser
The parts of the document
Browse the document, edit and change style
Document properties
Make a report on a document
Nodes
Node Explorer
Other ways of creating nodes
Node report
Searching
Refining the coding at a node
Conclusion
Further reading
3. Data preparation
Styles
Parts of the document
Conclusion
Further reading
4. Coding
Nodes and coding
Data-driven or concept-driven?
The node definition
What can nodes be about?
Thinking about the text
Selecting the text
Coding at already created nodes
Seeing what is coded at a node
Hierarchy of nodes
Functions of the node tree
Types of node in NVivo
Organizing tree nodes
Coding away from the computer
Refining the coding
Conclusion
Further reading
5. Memos and attributes
Memos
Linking documents and memos
DataBites and annotations
How to use document, node and DataBite linking
Attributes
Conclusion
Further reading
6. Searching for text
What to search the text for
Simple searching
The NVivo Search Tool
An example using the Job Search project
Metaphors and accounts
Sets
Conclusion
Further reading
7. Developing an analytic scheme
Ways of coding at nodes
Creating and manipulating a node tree
Pattern searching and checking hunches
Node and attribute searching in NVivo
Examples of questions addressed by searching with nodes and attributes
Conclusion
Further reading
8. Three analytic styles
Structured analysis
Grounded theory
Narrative, life history and biography
Conclusion
Further reading
9. Visualizing the data
Matrices and tables
Matrix searching in NVivo
Charts and diagrams
The NVivo Model Explorer
Conclusion
Further reading
10. Communicating
The need to write
Organization
Quality
Teams
Conclusion
Further reading
Glossary
References
Index

Qualitative data analysis : explorations with NVivo /

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