Analysis with webQDA software: Teachers’ perspective on Problem-Based Learning

Abstract

The objective of this essay was to present the analysis, using the webQDA software, of the teaching and learning process in Problem Based Learning (PBL), from the perspective of nursing teachers of a Higher Education Institution in Brazil. The PBL is applied in the Systematized Educational Unit (SEU), which composes several activities. The sampling was intentional, and teachers of the SEU 1 and SEU 2 of the nursing course were interviewed in 2017. In data processing we worked with the webQDA. Illustrating in this article the theme that addresses the SEU implementation in the perspective of the conference activity. The software’s application operationalized the data in a judicious, systematized way, reducing the coding time of the interview material. As a limitation, it is possible to think about the researchers’ training relating to the extent of the software can advance in relation to the analysis and crossreferencing of the data, especially by the volume of data.