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VERBI - Software, Consult, Sozialforschung GmbH
IndustryComputer Software, Qualitative Research
Founded1989
Headquarters
Marburg
,
Germany
ProductsMAXQDA 2007, MAXQDAplus 2007
WebsiteMAXQDA Homepage

MAXQDA is one of the world leading software programs for computer-assisted qualitive data analysis and text analysis created and distributed by VERBI GmbH. VERBI is an expert in delevoping QDA software products for qualitative and quantitative research (mixed methods research) in sciences and pubilic or privat institutions. The key note is the easy and clever management of the program. Actually, MAXQDA 2007 is the latest member of the MAX program family that belongs to handful of pioneer programs which have given qualitative researchers a computer-based tool to analyze their data in a very comfortable way.


Products

The basic version of MAXQDA 2007 already offers comfortable features for a state-of-the-art analysis of qualitative data. It contains the powerful graphics tool MAXMaps as a fully integrated component. MAXQDAplus 2007 is the extended version including the software MAXDictio for quantitative lexical analysis.

File:MAXQDA Screen.png File:MAXQDA Screen MAXMAPS.png


History

1989

  • Udo Kuckartz, professor for empirical educational science at the Marburg University, is the author of the program and multiplicity literature on computer-based qualitaitve research
  • the first version was released under the name MAX for the DOS Windows System

1994

  • the program switches from DOS to the Windows platform and WinMAX became of MAX
  • in the next time continuous upgrades followed and enhanced the functions of the software that now contains also visualization functions (e.g. the display of coding strips)

2001

  • the program works with the .rtf format and changed the name to MAXqda and the new dictonary based tool MAXDictio appeared

2004

  • with the new version MAXqda 2 some elaborate visual tools for data representation were offered for the first time: the Code-Matrix-Browser and the Code-Relations-Browser, furthermore, a number of new functions became avaible such as the export for HTML File Format

2005

  • the add-on module MAXMaps for graphical and content interpretation was released

2007

  • the latest version MAXQDA 2007 was optimized for all parts of the research process on qualitaitve data; new features such as the TextPortrait, the Codeliner and the Text-Comparison-Chart offer new insigthts into the data and supply the researcher with the high potential for methodological innovations, the MAXQDA Visual Tools are second to none within the spectrum of QDA software

2008

  • an extensive licensing reform gives the users a high range of flexibility through the purchase of single-user, network and portable licenses (e.g. Avaibility of MAXQDA for each PC by USB Flash drive)
  • at least MAXQDA became the first software for qualitaitve text analysis that integrate geo-references


Theoretical Background

Qualitative data analysis becomes more remark related to the research work within the practicable use of Mixed Methods. The supplementation of partial quantitative analysis by quantitative explorations brings some essential vantages that will be accept and enforce by more and more researchers. The methodological backround by working with QDA software is the Grounded theory lean on the explanation of Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin.


Special features of MAXQDA 2007

  • Teamwork function allows to create a detailed protocol of all operations during the teamwork import
  • easy administration of all data in one .mx3 file such as a data base
  • fx manager to work with complex retrieval functions
  • continuous usage of Memos to document all ideas and insights that comes up during working to the text, moreover the comfortable handling and recovery of all disposed memos on the Memo System view
  • wide range of options for visualization with the tool MAXMaps view and other program functions, e.g. the TextPortait view, the Code-Matrix-Browser view, the Code-Relations-Browser view, the Codeliner and the Text-Comparison-Chart
  • defining and working on variables, furthermore, the export to SPSS and Excel


Description: 10 Steps from Interview to Coding

  • (1) Recording single/group/focus interview(s) with a digital recorder (e.g. Olympus DS-30) and transfer them onto a computer
  • (2) intstalling a free transcription software F4 audiotranscription See also and load the relevant interview file, automatic rewind function and time "stamps" can be set by the researcher
  • (3) starting the transcription, control it with F4 key or more easily plug in the USB-Footswitch f-pro and start typing
  • (5) opening MAXQDA and import the text files by choosing the function Import Text(s), all time stamps will be visible in the text
  • (6) after that the text can be open (in the window Document System) and working on the text (in the window Text Browser) starts
  • (7) to hear the orginal audio file again click on a time stamp in the MAXQDA Text Browser and the audio file will play that segment (with the therefor opened software F4 in the backround)
  • (8) to code a text segment, a word, a letter or a semantic sign just highlight them, press CTRL+W to create a new code in your Code System, choose the code color and type a defintion as a Code Memo (comparable to a post-it note to the code)
  • (9) all coded phrases are visualized with color bars using the color assigned by the researcher; for cleaving interesting ideas that comes up while coding, these can be insert right next to text in a memo as a post-it note
  • (10) to read through a specific selection of your coded phrases again, ACTIVATE (right mouse click) the specific code(s) and text(s) (e.g. you want to see what an interviewee says about your code political changes), a potential result will be shown in the window Retrieved Segments

Also look for:

<http://www.maxqda.com/service/tutorials/>

<http://www.maxqda.com/service/tools/>


References & Linkings

1. Juliet Corbin and Anselm Strauss: Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory, 3rd edition, 2008, Sage Publications, Los Angeles, London, New Dehli, Singapore See also

2. Ann Lewins and Christina Silver: Using Software in Qualitative Research: A Step-by-Step Guide, 2007,Sage Publications, Los Angeles, London, New Dehli, Singapore See also

3. <http://www.maxqda.com/products/>

4. <http://www.maxqda.com/shop/>

5. <http://www.maxqda.com/downloads/>

6. <http://www.maxqda.com/service/>


http://www.maxqda.com/

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