Methods of examining social research data without converting them to a numerical format
What is Qualitative Analysis?
100
Examinining more then one case
What is cross-case analysis?
100
Writing memos or notes to yourself and others involved in the project. Can describe and define concepts, deal with methodological issues, or offer initial theoretical formulations.
What is Memoing?
100
This popular program for teaching qualitative social research offers a fair representation of the QDA programs.
What is NUD*IST
100
Three key tools for preparing data for analysis are ______, memoining, and concept mapping
What is coding
200
The study of signs and meanings associated with them, commonly associated with content analysis.
What is Semiotics?
200
It describes and/or explains a particular variable
What is Variable-oriented analysis?
200
seeks to identify the central code in the study, the one that the other codes all related to.
What is selective coding?
200
Researchers can take advantage of the capabilites of common _______ tools which assist researchers in the analysis
What is software
200
_________ uses diagrams to explore relationships in the data graphically
What is Concept mapping
300
Where theories are generated solely from an examination of data rather than being derived deductively.
What is Grounded Theory Method?
300
an analysis that aims to understand a particular case or several cases by looking more closely at the details of each case
What is case-oriented analysis?
300
The graphic display of concepts and their interrrelations, useful in the formulation of theory.
What is Concept mapping?
300
_________ seeks to identify the central code in the study.
What is Selective coding
400
involves the question of whether you are measuring what you say you're measuring.
What is validity?
400
a meticulous analysis of the details of conversation, based on a complete transcript that includes pauses, hems and also haws.
What is Conversation Analysis?
400
The initial classification and labeling of concepts in qualitative data analysis.
The codes are suggested by the researchers' examination and questioning of the data.
What is Open coding?
400
____________ has now superseded NUD*IST, however some researchers still use the older variant of the software.
What is NVivo 8
400
__________ seeks to pursure that aim through an extremely close scrutiny of the way we converse with one another.
What is Conversation Analysis
500
any thing that is assigned a special meaning. Can be logos, animals, people, and consumer products.
What is signs?
500
a componet of Grounded Method Theory in which observations are compared with one another and with the evolving inductive theory.
What is constant comparative method?
500
aimed at identifying the important, general concepts
What is axial coding?
500
What does NUD*IST stand for?
What is Nonnumeric Unstructured Data, Index Searching, and Theorizing
500
____________ and ___________ are reasonable criteria for evaluating qualitative research