title: Horses for courses: facilitating postgraduate research students' choice of Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis System (CAQDAS).
abstract: Supervisors of postgraduate students are increasingly likely to find themselves discussing whether or not the student should use a CAQDAS (computer assisted qualitative data analysis system) in their research. This paper discusses Weitzman and Miles (1995) framework for decision-making about CAQDAS and then reports the experiences of five postgraduate students, each of whom made a different decision. (These were variously: not to use a CAQDAS, using Atlas-Ti, Ethnograph, N. VIVO and N5). It explores the fit between Weitzman's and Miles' principles and the students' experiences then suggests some modifications of the principles and strategies for advising students.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Science and Planning, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Marshall
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D009716:Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted; D015399:Nursing Research; D036301:Qualitative Research; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*