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What is the socratic method?

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  • A problem is broken down to a series of questions
  • The answers to the questions gradually reveal the solution to the problem
  • Basis for the scientific method (hypothesis)
2
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What is epistemology?

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Investigating or questioning the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge

3
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How can qualitative data be converted to quantitative data?

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By using likert questions (e.g. strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree)

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What are the features of quantitative research?

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- Hypothesis
›- Takes a sample
- Measures a variable
›- Assumes there is a true answer
›- Gets as close as possible to that true answer
›- “What?” “how much?” and “why"
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What are the features of qualitative research?

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  • Develops understanding of experiences, perceptions, choices, behaviour
  • “Why” and “how”
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What are the philosophical foundations of qualitative research?

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  • Realities are dynamic, individual and socially constructed
    ›- Knowledge is co-constructed & context dependent
    ›- Those who have the experiences are the most knowledgeable about them
7
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What are the qualitative methodologies?

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  • Discourse analysis
  • Grounded theory
  • Ethnography
  • Action research
  • Phenomenology
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What is action research?

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  • Occurs when people see an injustice they want to correct

- Cycle of observing, planning, acting, reflecting

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What is ethnography?

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Involves going and living an experience (e.g. living with a tribe) then documenting the experience

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What does the grounded theory involve?

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  • Recording a discussion
  • Identifing the themes of the discussion
  • Themes are grounded in the words the people said (i.e. the themes are not pre-conceived by the researchers)
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What are the reasons for gathering qualitative data?

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  • To optimise quality, efficiency and effectiveness
  • For fiscal and public accountability
  • To make decision re continuation of treatment or services
  • To guide practice
  • To ascertain client satisfaction, opinion
12
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“Not everything that can be counted counts.
Not everything that counts can be counted.”

This quote is commonly used by qualitative researchers to indicate that …

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Quantitative methods reduce complex experiences to frequencies and associations, and in doing so can fail to capture the rich meaning of people’s experiences

13
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Which qualitative research methodology aims to capture the ‘lived experience’ of its participants in a particular situation?

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Phenomenology

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In grounded theory, theoretical samples of people work towards a point in which no new themes or issues emerge from the information and data. What is this point called?

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Saturation point

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The process in which the researcher seeks confirmation and clarification from the participants, that the data accurately reflect what they meant or wanted to say, is better known as …

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Respondent validation

16
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True or false:
As with quantitative studies, large sample sizes are required in qualitative studies to ensure significance and completeness of the research data.

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False