Hi, my name is Roberto Sánchez, I´m doing qualitative research in Spain.
My research is a descriptive case study about a group of physical
education secondary students during a whole school year. This research
emphasizes on their learning and their feelings in a team sports program.
I´ve recorded 60 hours of video, I have written documentation taken from
30 interviews and their classwork and compositions. In addition, the
students involved in the research handed me drawings in wich they
explained what they did in class. I also have photographs and my research
diary. At the moment, I´m transcribing interviews and revising
bibliography and I´ve begun looking for data analysis software. At the
beginning, I thought of using to analyze the text and to see the videos in
order to note my considerations and to transcribe the voices. I´ve seen in
the internet, the great advances that have taken place since I started my
research four years ago. Because of this, I have reconsidered looking for
a software that allows me to work with different kinds of data I have, I
mean, text, video and images. The most important for me is that this
software is able to work with three differents kinds of data in the same
category. I think Atlas.ti is the program that suits me best, although I
have read that Transana is better in order to work with many video hours.
Anyway, I would appreciate if you advised me about which program suits me
best, taking into account that I want to work text, video and images at
the same time, and whether I could face any difficulties when I use it.
Thanks in advance.
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