Being a Qualitative Researcher
The 5 Traditions
Human Subjects and Ethics
Data Collection
Data Analysis
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Observation, interview(s), text or visual analysis.
What are data collection methods that would answer your research question?
100
A study to describe and interpret the stories of individuals to find themes or structure a story, while overcoming the limitation of needing an extensive amount of information on the participant.
What is a narrative?
100
Review Committee for describing activities involving people as part of research activities at WMU.
What is HUMAN SUBJECTS INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD? Creswell p. 57, Marshall & Rossman p. 127.
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Interview and observational protocols, field notes, memoing, artifacts, documents, archival material.
What are types of data collected and recorded in qualitative research?
100
Aggregating the text or visual data into small categories of information.
What is coding?
200
Human behavior and habits.
What are areas of study that qualitative researchers are usually extensively involved in studying?
200
A study to describe and interpret a process or phenomenon among many individuals to create a conceptual framework or theory, while overcoming the limitation of determining when the research is saturated or the theory is sufficiently detailed.
What is a grounded theory?
200
The practice of "wrongful appropriation, purloining or publication" using another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" without credit or permission?
What is PLAGIARISM?
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Gain permission to access information in archives (Audiovisual Materials, Documents), interview individuals or groups (Interviews), observe individuals or groups (Observations).
What are data collection approaches in qualitative research? Creswell p. 160
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Broad units of information that consist of several codes aggregated to form a common idea.
What are themes?
300
Reflexive process involving planning and conducting a study through every project stage (broader and less restrictive design).
What are the involvements in qualitative research design?
300
A study to describe and interpret the behaviors, beliefs and customs of a group to create a description of a culture sharing group, while overcoming the limitation of extensive amount of time conducting prolonged field work.
What is an ethnography?
300
Obtained from study participants to gain their support.
What is PERMISSION?
300
Physical file folders, computer files, transcriptions, field notes.
How is information typically stored during qualitative research?
300
The process of organizing data, coding, representing, and interpretation.
What is data analysis?
400
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A study to describe and interpret the same experiences of many individuals to find themes and understand their experience, while overcoming the limitation of finding multiple individuals who have had the same experience.
What is a phenomenology?
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Group of particularly vulnerable subjects in interviews, and the injunction "primum non nocere" (first do no harm) is especially important for the researcher to be scrupulous about.
What are CHILDREN? (M & R p. 158).
400
Maximum variation, Homogeneous, Critical case, Theory based, Confirming and disconfirming cases, Snowball or chain, Extreme or deviant case, typical case, Intensity, Politically important, Random purposeful, Stratified purposeful, Criterion, Opportunistic, Combination or mixed, Convenience
What are types of sampling strategies in qualitative research? Creswell p. 158
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Investigator uses exact words used by the participants when coding (grounded theory research).
What is In Vivo Codes?
500
A world of words and images (researcher understands the World from studied perspectives).
What is the World of qualitative research (how a qualitative researcher understands the world)?
500
A study to describe and interpret a bounded system or program to find themes or present an in-depth picture of the case, while overcoming the limitation of a lack of clear beginning and end.
What is a case study?
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This type of person is described by Marshall and Rossman as someone in a position of "power and influence."
What is an ELITE? Marshall & Rossman pp. 155 - 156;
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The smallest unit treated by the researcher during the study (individuals, dyads, or groups - person, process, group, site, program).
What is unit of analysis?
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Using multiple and different sources, investigators, and theories to provide corroborating evidence for validating a study's accuracy.
What is triangulation?
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