webQDA — Qualitative data analysis software: Usability assessment

Abstract

-The use of qualitative analysis to support software has been growing. The integration of these types of tools in research is accompanied by an increase in the number of software packages available. Depending on the design and research questions, researchers can explore various solutions available in the market. Thus, it is urgent to ensure that these tools, apart from containing the necessary functionality for the purposes of research projects, are also usable. This study presents an assessment of the usability of the qualitative data analysis software webQDA ® (version 2.0). To assess its usability, the System Usability Scale (SUS) was used. The results indicate that the current version is "acceptable" in terms of usability. We therefore hope, with this assessment, to make decisions so as to improve the usability of the new version of webQDA® (version 3.0).

The Effects of an Educational Program Based on Modeling and Social Stories to Improve the Social Skills of Students with Autism

“…Moreover, the Mann-Whitney test works with ranks, rather than data values, which can be the main reason for the similarity of the results on both dimensions. Consequently, the qualitative method was utilized to overcome the weakness of using a single method by conducting interviews with the teachers of the participants, and the data of the interviews were analyzed using WebQDA software (Costa et al, 2019).…”

“…The participants with HFASD were revaluated by reapplying the Autism Social Skills Profile (ASSP) (post-test) (Bellini, 2006), to measure the educational program effects on the student's social communication skills, and analyze the results using the SPSS software version 25 th , including the mean rank, sum of ranks, and Mann-Whitney U value. Then, the qualitative method was utilized by interviewing the teachers of the students with HFASD, and the interviews were analyzed by using the WebQDA software (Costa et al, 2019), to validate the study and confirm the results of the quantitative method.…”

“…The qualitative method was conducted by Interviewing four of the participants' teachers to validate the study and confirm the data of the quantitative method. The data of the interviews were treated using WebQDA software (www.webqda.com) (Costa et al, 2019) to support the analysis of qualitative data in a collaborative and distributed environment developed by researchers at the University of Aveiro. The 12 interview questions were related to the social reciprocity skills of students with ASD and divided into 11 categories to answer the research question.…”

“…The results of WebQDA software analysis (Costa et al, 2019), including related sources, dimensions, categories, and the number of references are shown in Table 12, where teachers' interviews were analyzed and divided into 11 subcategories presenting social reciprocity skills of students with ASD.…”

Lessons Learned: Occupational Therapy in Nursing Homes during the First Wave of COVID-19 in Spain

“…The recorded interviews were transcribed and subsequently analyzed using WebQDA software.WebQDA is a software created to support the qualitative dates analyses in a collaborative and distributed work environment such as the Internet synchronously or asynchronously [ 15 ]. The participants’ accounts were analyzed thematically.…”