I will be analyzing qualitative data (interviews and field notes) with survey derived quantitative data.
All the major CAQDAS packages have facilities to handle that kind of mixed design, e.g. using the "Casebook" in NVivo. MaxQDA has some very nice facilities for what Creswell calls joint displays, e.g. a "Quotation Matrix". Atlas.ti is IMHO the most intuitive to use, and is generally agreed to have the best modelling functions. Both MaxQDA and Atlas have very good licensing for student users, if that works for you. And I think Atlas have some discount offer this month? Dedoose, which is less well-known (developed by medical researchers at UCLA), claims to have specific facilities for Mixed Methods analysis. It's also available as a pay-as-you-go Cloud service, so worth a look.
Thanks for the feedback Alan. After examining most available I'm going to go with Dedoose since my background is actually in medicine.
Angeline I just saw your inquiry. I used Atlas.ti to manage my dissertation research (interviews, website analysis, personal research notes) and found it to be an excellent tool.
NVivo is also good at analyzing qual data. But at the same time quan data can also be analyzed and data from quan software and spreadsheets can be imported into NVivo. there is a 14-day trial version. You can give it a try. Good luck with your studies.
Thank you for the recommendations! Do you know any good free source mixed methods software, to be used for both teaching: classroom exercises and lit review projects, but also for research purposes?
QDA Miner is a good mixed-method tool where you can code qualitative data and analyze the relationship between qualitative and quantitative data. You can use a crosstab to compare results between values of a variable (e.g. age, gender, location, etc.) and you can display the results using tables or graphs. To learn more: https://provalisresearch.com/products/qualitative-data-analysis-software/ There is also a free mixed-method software called QDA Miner Lite. It allows doing basic mixed-method analysis: https://provalisresearch.com/products/qualitative-data-analysis-software/freeware/
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