Programme Structure for 2024/2025
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Qualitative Data Analysis in the Social Sciences: Content Analysis Using Maxqda ®
6.0 ECTS
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Qualitative Data Analysis in the Social Sciences: Content Analysis Using Maxqda ®
OA1- Knowing when it is appropriate to develop content analysis and the advantages and challenges in using computer assister Qualitative data analysis software.
OA2- Knowing how Maxqda works, which formats and materials work, how to export and import data.
OA3- Knowing how to import and organize the data, the rules for the selection of the documents and the creating of the categories, and the various ways of coding the material
OA4- Knowing how to adapt the variety of graphical (document portraits, tag cloud, codeline, etc.), numerical (code matrix browser, code relation browser, sub codes statistics, etc.) and textual outputs to different goals and stages of the analysis.
OA5- Knowing how to present and interpret the data, and what outputs are not supposed to be included in a report or article.
CP1- Content Analysis
- Qualitative and quantitative traditions
- Qualitative research in the social sciences
- Interviews
- Myths, history and definitions of content analysis
- Functions, goals and examples of content analysis
CP2- CAQDAS: potential and limitations
- Critics and limitations
- Advantages and potentialities
-Technical, analytical and epistemological obstacles
- Layout and main functions of Maxqda
CP3- From the material to the dataset
- how to import, open, edit and create documents
-rules for the selection of the documents
-rules and stages of the creation of categories
- Coding
- The variables
CP4- From the dataset to the outputs
- Analysis functions
(Busca lexical, variáveis, frequência das categorias, code-relation browser, code-matrix browser)
- Graphical outputs (documentportrait, document comparison chart, codeline, tag cloud, etc.)
- Textual outputs
CP5- The results
- How to export
- What to export
- how to interpret
- how to present
Final evaluation:
Development of an individual report based on a Maxqda project
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