Methods & Data Flashcards
An important design feature of story completion tasks is?
a. ) Being meaningful to participants
b. ) Being realistic to participants
c. ) Being artificial to participants
d. ) Being directive to participants
a.) Being meaningful to participants
What are the major design issues in using secondary sources?
a. ) Meaningfulness to participants
b. ) Sample and rationale
c. ) Size of sample
d. ) Realism
b.) Sample and rationale
One of the weaknesses of qualitative surveys is?
a. ) Limited flexibility
b. ) An emphasis on collecting individual views, opinions and experience
c. ) An emphasis on collecting data from small samples
d. ) They are less time-consuming than interviews
a.) Limited flexibility
Qualitative surveys are particularly useful for?
a. ) Collecting individual views, opinions and experiences
b. ) Generating rich, detailed and ‘deep’ data
c. ) Generating unanticipated insights
d. ) Collecting data from small samples
a.) Collecting individual views, opinions and experiences
Researcher self-disclosure and the development of rapport with participants are issues particularly associated with which of the following qualitative methods?
a. ) Story completion tasks
b. ) Focus groups
c. ) Qualitative surveys
d. ) Interviews
d.) Interviews
People management is a particular consideration when using which of the following qualitative methods?
a. ) Qualitative surveys
b. ) Focus groups
c. ) Interviews
d. ) Story completion tasks
b.) Focus groups
Which of the following are examples of good interview questions?
a. ) Leading and open-ended questions
b. ) Open-ended and short questions
c. ) Multiple questions and leading questions
d. ) Vague and short questions
b.) Open-ended and short questions
Which of the following are examples of ‘secondary sources’?
a. ) Interviews and diaries
b. ) Personal documents and story completion tasks
c. ) Diaries and surveys
d. ) Personal documents and the media
d.) Personal documents and the media
Which of the following methods are particularly useful for accessing assumptions and ‘hidden’ meanings?
a. ) Qualitative surveys
b) . Conversation analysis
c. ) Focus groups
d. ) Story-completion tasks
d.) Story-completion tasks
Which of the following methods is more commonly used in quantitative research than qualitative research?
a. ) Semi-structured interviewing
b. ) Focus groups
c. ) Thematic analysis
d. ) Story-completion tasks
d.) Story-completion tasks
Which of the following qualitative methods reduces the power and control of the researcher?
a. ) Interviews
b. ) Qualitative surveys
c. ) Focus groups
d. ) Story completion tasks
c.) Focus groups
What is the major motivation for using secondary sources?
a. ) A desire to understand culture b. ) A desire to understand participants’ language and concepts c. ) A desire to understand relationships between phenomenon d. ) A desire to understand story structures
a.) A desire to understand culture
Virtual interviews can encourage participants to:
a. ) Disclose socially undesirable information b. ) Multi-task during an interview c. ) Demand payment for their participation d. ) Both a. and b.
d.) Both a. and b - Disclose socially undesirable information and Multi-task during an interview.
Interviews are ideally suited to which of the following types of qualitative research:
a. ) Research focused on people’s experience of the world b. ) Interpretative Phenomenological research c. ) Research focused on general views and opinions d. ) Both a. and b.
d.) Both a. and b - Research focused on people’s experience of the world and Interpretative Phenomenological research
Ideally how many interviews should you conduct in one day:
a. ) As many as you can b. ) One c. ) Three d. ) Four
b.) One
