webQDA: quick user's guide

Abstract

Research in the humanities and social sciences in general, and in particular in education, has gone through many transformations over the past decades. Like with all branches of science, these also influenced and were influenced by specific developments in the field and technologies. For over 30 years, computer applications have been helping users make qualitative analysis of non-numerical and unstructured data, presenting the users with results in the form of numerical arrays, triangulated with descriptive discourse of a qualitative nature, which supports them in their interpretations (...)