The use of Qualitative Data Analysis Software in Brazilian Educational Papers

Software packages that support data analysis in a scientific research can be understood as a mean to assisting the researcher in the treatment, organization and analysis phases, with the main objective of collaborate to the development of research or projects. These tools stand out and are sought by allowing data analysis to be done in a variety of formats (audio, video, image, text)providing collaborative work (two or more research working on the same research project)and the searched data. Considering this reality this article aims to carry out a bibliographic survey in journals evaluated with the Qualis A1, about which software packages the scientific publications - especially in the Brazilian scenario - have chosen to explore in their scientific analyzes in the field of Education. This research presents itself as a qualitative study with its bibliographical and documentary analysis. The dimensions of this work are delimited in the understanding of the reality from the use of software that the researcher chooses to work in i)qualitative, quantitative or mixed, and ii)which software packages could be identified in a researched universe of 121 journals were consulted of which 13 were selected for this study.