Difference Testing

Question 1

What is the independent variable?

Answer 1

a variable that is changed or controlled

Question 2

What is the dependent variable?

Answer 2

variable being tested and measured

Question 3

What is quantitative data?

Answer 3

numbers

Question 4

What is an alternate/research hypothesis?

Answer 4

the difference/relationship/effect you expect to find

Question 5

What is a null hypothessiis?

Answer 5

That you expect to find no difference /relationship/effect

Question 6

What are some qualitative methods?

Answer 6

observations, interviews and timelines

Question 7

What are the strengths of quantitative research?

Answer 7

Large numbers

complex patterns

cause and effect

Question 8

What are the limitations of quantitative research?

Answer 8

lack of depth

experience

controlled

Question 9

What are the strengths of qualitative research?

Answer 9

context

depth

flexibility

Question 10

What are the limitations of qualitative research?

Answer 10

ethics

time

subjectivity

Question 11

What is paradigm

Answer 11

how you look at the world

Question 12

What is ontology?

Answer 12

looks at the nature of reality

Question 13

What is epistemology?

Answer 13

represents the nature of knowledge,

Question 14

What is methodology?

Answer 14

how we gain that knowledge

Question 15

What is positivism?

Answer 15

looking for truth/facts

Question 16

what is interpretivism?

Answer 16

looking to understand people experiences

Question 17

What is pragmatism?

Answer 17

prioritise answering research question

Question 18

What is thematic analysis?

Answer 18

method for identifying and analysing patterns in qualitative data

Question 19

What are the 6 steps of thematic analysis?

Answer 19

Familiarise yourself with the data

Generate codes in data

searching for themes

reviewing themes

define and naming themes

produce the report

Question 20

What is content analysis?

Answer 20

aims to systematic, reduce and interrogate the content of data

Question 21

What is a deductive approach?

Answer 21

theory to observation/findings

Question 22

What is a inductive approach?

Answer 22

observation/findings to theory

Question 23

Please identify and briefly describe the four stages of content analysis (outlined in Bengtsson, 2016)

Answer 23

decontextualisation -
recontextualisation
Categorisation
Compilation

Question 24

what is Ordinal data?

Answer 24

Data that provides grounds for categorisation, has no mathematical meaning/value BUT a certain order is maintained

Eg frequenccy of PA
1-never
2-sometimes
3-always

Question 25

What is the left side of the grounded theory?

Answer 25

Method of analysis that generates abstract concepts. Analytical tools used to identify and construcy theory. what the researcher understands and can define in line with research area. purposeful sampling to develop emerging categories and theory.

Question 26

What is nominal data?

Answer 26

Named’ data that provides grounds for categorisation – but has no mathematical meaning/value. Eg gender- 1-female 2-male

Question 27

What is interval data?

Answer 27

Numbers that occur at regular intervals (where the intervals are the same between each number), but zero is arbitrary. Eg temperature

Question 28

What is ratio data?

Answer 28

One value can be expressed relative to another (as a ratio) and zero has meaning. Eg height and body mass

Question 29

Strengths of grounded theory?

Answer 29

Can use multiple types of data new theories can emerge from coding into categories.

Question 30

4 types of data youtube video explained.

Answer 30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJpiUHbLKLU