Denuded data

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Burroughs-Lange, S. G., Lange, J. (1993). Denuded data! Grounded theory using the nudist computer analysis program: In research the challenge to teacher self-efficacy posed by students with learning disabilities in australian education. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Atlanta, Ga, April 12-16.

"The data which the qualitative researcher collects and generates are mostly words." (3)

• No clearly articulated body of info in the field
• Analyst "abstracts concepts from the data" in order to develop the well-articulated information (4)

Temptation

"The researcher who wishes to use the computer to reduce tedious tasks is faced with the dilemma of keeping in check the urge to assemble neat and tidy coded segments" (5)

Conclusion

"To see [qualitative analysis] computer software was offering relief from tedious and less than efficient clerical tasks is to undervalue the relationship. [It might] open up the potential for the intuitions and clashes of human insight"