BACKGROUND Being a nurse is more than just a series of business activities and skills. In fact, it is a part of the process of socialization, which is internalization and development of professional identity. Professional socialization is necessary for involving the students in professional practices. Thus, the purpose of this qualitative research was to increase the understanding of profession...

Wilhelm Kempf Towards an Integration of Quantitative and Qualitative Content Analysis in Propaganda Research 1. Reconstruction of socio-psychological context as a methodological framework Within the framework of recent studies on U.S. propaganda and psychological warfare during the Contra War in Nicaragua (Kempf, 1990), a communication model was developed according to which it is not so much th...

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a content analysis model for assessing students‟ cognitive learning in asynchronous online discussions. It adopted a fully mixed methods design, in which qualitative and quantitative methods were employed sequentially for data analysis and interpretation. Specifically, the design was a “sequential exploratory” (QUAL→ quan) design with priori...

Web Content Management Systems (WCMS) play an increasingly important role in the Internet’s evolution. They are software platforms that facilitate the implementation of a web site or an e-commerce and are gaining popularity due to its flexibility and ease of use. In this work, we explain from a tutorial perspective how to manage WCMS and what can be achieved by using them. With this aim, we sel...

In order to investigate practitioners’ opinions of software process and software process improvement, we have collected a large volume of qualitative evidence from 13 companies. At the same time, other researchers have reported investigations of practitioners, and we are interested in how their reports may relate to our evidence. Thus, other research publications can also be treated as a form o...