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Qualitative Research Flashcards

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What is qualitative research?

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The process of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data such as language and other NONUMERICAL information.

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What does qualitative research seek to understand?

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The meaning of an experience for the participants

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What are other names for qualitative research?

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  1. Naturalistic
  2. Interpretive
  3. Grounded Theory
  4. Phenomenological
  5. Ethnographic
  6. Participant Observational Research
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What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative research concerning research focus?

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Qualitative: quality (nature, essence)

Quantitative: quantity (how much/many)

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What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative research concerning associated phrases?

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Qualitative: fieldwork, naturalistic, subjective

Quantitative: experimental, empirical (based on data), statistical

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What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative research concerning goals?

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Qualitative: understanding, description, hypothesis gathering, discovery

Quantitative: prediction, control, description, hypothesis testing

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What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative research concerning design characteristics?

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Qualitative: flexible, evolving

Quantitative: predetermined, structured

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What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative research concerning setting?

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Qualitative: natural, familiar

Quantitative: unfamiliar, artificial

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What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative research concerning sample?

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Qualitative: small, non-random, purposive (gives the most info)

Quantitative: large, random, representative

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What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative research concerning data collection?

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Qualitative: researcher is the primary instrument, observation

Quantitative: inanimate objects collect data

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What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative research concerning mode of analysis?

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Qualitative: inductive by researcher

Quantitative: deductive by statistical methods

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What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative research concerning findings?

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Qualitative: comprehensive, expansive

Quantitative: precise, narrow

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What does inductive mean?

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Specific to general

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What does deductive mean?

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General to specific

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What are the procedures in qualitative research?

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  1. Define the problem
  2. Formulate questions and theoretical framework
  3. Collect data
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What is important when collecting data?

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  1. Training the researcher and piloting the questions
  2. Selecting purposive subjects
  3. Entering the setting
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What are the three major methods of data collection?

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  1. Interviews
  2. Focus Groups
  3. Observation
18
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Describe interviews.

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  1. Most common
  2. Can be highly structured or open-ended
  3. Must have practice (pilot study)
  4. Must appear nonjudgmental
  5. Should be video recorded
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Describe focus groups.

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  1. The group must be homogenous
  2. Can be less intimidating unless the topic is controversial
  3. You are not trying to reach a consensus
  4. Should be video recorded
20
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Describe observations

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Usually fieldwork

21
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How do you analyze data?

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  1. Data Reduction
  2. Sorting, analyzing, and categorizing
  3. Interpreting the data
22
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What is involved in data reduction?

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  1. Transcribing
  2. Confirm for accuracy
23
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What are you looking for when sorting, analyzing, and categorizing

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Looking for themes and common words

24
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Instead of validity and reliability, what is used in qualitative research?

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Trustworthiness

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What is trustworthiness?

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It is used to describe the overall quality of the results

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What is Credibility?

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When the participants and setting are accurately described

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What is transferability?

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Results can be transferred to other settings

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What is confirmability?

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If readers feel the results are reliable

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What methods help show trustworthiness?

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  1. Prolonged engagement
  2. Audit Trail
  3. Rich, Thick Description
  4. Clarification of Research Bias
  5. Triangulation
  6. Negative Case Check
  7. Member Check
  8. Peer Debriefing
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What is prolonged engagement?

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Showing there was enough time spent with participants to form an in-depth understanding

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What is an audit trial?

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Changes that were made during the study and how they influenced the study

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What is a rich, thick description?

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This is used to help readers understand the study and to make sure there is enough information for a study

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What is clarification of research bias?

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The research acknowledges their biases and how they work to control them

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What is triagulation?

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Using multiple sources of evidence to support a conclusion

35
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What is negative case check?

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If the results of the research are as persuasive as the researcher thought (are the results because they are there or because they want to see them)

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What is member check?

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The researcher shares the conclusions with participants to see if they agree with the results

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What is peer debriefing?

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another person who has been trained on what you are studying looks at your conclusions and challenges them

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