NVivo R. 1.4.1代碼簿在整合型質性研究之運用

The Use of NVivo R. 1.4.1 Codebook for Integrated Qualitative Research

整合型質性研究已經成為質性研究的一環，此新趨勢可以讓整合不同研究領域、時空與研究者間的項目。代碼簿（codebook）可以導出編碼清單，讓研究者們根據同一代碼簿進行編碼，編碼的結果可以形成階層式具有次級（親子）或同級（兄弟姊妹）的關聯效果，運用NVivo的代碼簿可以確保編碼的一致性、不一致性與Kappa係數，代碼簿與項目也可導入／出，因此，不同研究者間可以用相同編碼簿清單進行編碼，確認彼此間是否「英雄所見略同」。透過不同用戶間成員檢證與同儕討論，可以確保項目文本的信實度與真實性。不過，研究者不應期盼以軟體來支配方法論，如果缺乏研究者本身的反省思考，會讓質性研究陷入資訊科技工具理性的泥淖而無法自拔。

"Integrated qualitative research has become one part of qualitative research, and this new trend allows for the integration of projects between different users in different research areas, time and researchers. Codebooks can import/export coding lists and provide researchers with coding based structure on the same codebook, and the coding results can form a hierarchy with parent/child or sibling association effects. NVivo's codebook can ensure coding agreements, disagreements, and kappa coefficients, and the codebook and project can be imported/exported, so that different researchers can use the same codebook list for coding and confirm whether they are 'great minds think alike'. Member checking and peer debriefing between users are used to ensure the trustworthiness and authenticity of the project. However, a researcher should not expect the software to dominate the methodology without introspection by the researcher per se, or the qualitative research will become mired in the instrumental rationality of information technology (IT)."