5 Qual data 2 Flashcards
Q: What is the primary goal of qualitative data analysis?
A: It is a systematic process of meaning-making, identifying patterns, and describing and interpreting data to understand variations in experiences and consider complexity.
Q: What is required from the researcher during qualitative data analysis?
A: Active engagement with the data.
Q: What are some complex forms of transcription, and what do they account for?
A: Complex forms, such as the Jefferson system, account for prosody (phonetics), paralinguistics (non-phonemic), and extralinguistic (non-linguistic) aspects.
Q: What is content analysis in qualitative research?
A: A method that uses qualitative data to examine patterns in communication in a replicable and systematic manner, allowing for statistical analysis of non-numeric data, though it is not typically considered qualitative.
Q: What is grounded theory?
A: A method used to generate theories of social phenomena through systematic data analysis, involving both inductive and deductive stages.
Q: What is the focus of discourse/conversation analysis?
A: To identify rules of conversational organization by studying recorded, natural talk-in-interaction to discover how participants understand and respond to one another.
Q: What does interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) aim to do?
A: To offer insights into how a given person, in a given context, makes sense of a given phenomenon, typically relating to experiences of personal significance, using small homogeneous samples.
Q: What is thematic analysis?
A: A method for identifying, analyzing, and reporting patterns within data, organizing and describing it, and interpreting aspects of the research topic.
Q: What are some advantages of thematic analysis?
A: It is flexible, easy and quick to learn, accessible to novice researchers, summarizes key features of large data sets, highlights similarities and differences across data sets, generates unanticipated insights, provides social and psychological interpretations of data, and results are accessible to the educated public.
Q: What type of analysis is typically inductive but can also be deductive?
A: Qualitative data analysis.
Q: What is the first phase of thematic analysis?
A: Data familiarisation, which involves reading and re-reading the data.
Q: What is the second phase of thematic analysis?
A: Generating codes by labeling ideas relevant to the research question.
Q: What is the third phase of thematic analysis?
A: Searching for themes by grouping related codes into candidate themes.
Q: What is the fourth phase of thematic analysis?
A: Reviewing themes to check if they fit the data and address the research question.
Q: What is the fifth phase of thematic analysis?
A: Defining and naming themes by describing them and selecting data extracts.
Q: What is the sixth phase of thematic analysis?
A: Producing the report or paper.
Q: What is important about the orientation phase in thematic analysis?
A: Being clear about assumptions and the theoretical framework, such as using a critical realist perspective that recognizes the socially constructed nature of reality and the role of language in shaping meaning.
Q: What approach is typically used in thematic analysis to derive codes and themes?
A: An inductive approach, focusing on the experiences of participants rather than using a pre-defined set of concepts and assumptions.
Q: What does familiarisation involve in the context of thematic analysis?
A: Reading and re-reading the data, keeping the research question in mind, making initial notes on first impressions, and aiming for data immersion rather than analysis.
Q: What is the temptation to avoid during the familiarisation phase?
A: Rushing to turn initial impressions into themes, which can lead to anecdotal findings.
Q: What is coding in qualitative data analysis?
A: Identifying features of the data that appear interesting to the analyst and referring to the most basic segments or elements of the raw data that can be assessed meaningfully regarding the phenomenon.
Q: What are 1st order codes in thematic analysis?
A: Descriptive or semantic codes that describe the idea of the data in the researcher’s own words.
Q: What are 2nd order codes in thematic analysis?
A: Abstract, latent, or interpretative codes that capture the underlying meaning of an idea in the data.
Q: What should be the approach towards coding in thematic analysis?
A: Shifting toward systematic engagement with the data, recognizing that codes don’t simply ‘emerge’ but are created by the researcher based on data and their knowledge and skills.
