Quant or Qual
The type of research methods that asks how and why.
What Qualitative Methods?
The research question for this class.
What is--How do NYU IE students perceive their experience in countries other than their own to influence cross-cultural skills?
A research method that uses a pre-determined set of questions with the opportunity for the interviewer to explore particular themes or responses further.
What is a semi-structured interview?
The agreement we signed at the beginning of the semester about upholding academic integrity.
What is the Wagner Academic Integrity Oath?
Examples include photographs, diagrams, relational maps, self-portraits, films, photo-diaries, video-diaries, collages, maps, drawings
What are visual materials?
Few cases, but many aspects of those cases.
What is a feature of Qualitative Methods?
Training we did at the beginning of class that focuses on ethics in research.
Qualitative interviews typically use these types of questions.
What are open-ended questions?
APA citation:
If you are paraphrasing an idea from another work, you only have to make reference to the ____ and ____ of publication in your in-text reference and may omit the page numbers.
Author
Year
A a social research method involving systematic examination of a body of documents.
What is document analysis?
Can identify broad patterns, test theory, make predictions.
What is a feature of Quantitative Methods?
“Norms for conduct” that distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable behavior.
What are Ethics?
Questions, comments, or gestures used by the interviewer to help manage the interview.
What are probes?
How would you correct this sentence following APA Guidelines? According to Jones, "students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it was their first time (p. 199)."
According to Jones (1998), "students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it was their first time" (p. 199).
Too subjective
Time consuming
What are 2 limitations of document analysis?
Can interpret significance, give voice, advance new theories.
What is a feature of Qualitative Methods?
Goals, conceptual framework, methods, validity, and research questions.
What is a research design?
A qualitative research technique in which a facilitator/interviewer asks a group of people about perceptions, beliefs, attitudes, etc.
What are focus groups?
Correct or incorrect based on APA guidelines?
She stated, "Students often had difficulty using APA style" (Jones, 1998), but she did not offer an explanation as to why.
Incorrect.
She stated, "Students often had difficulty using APA style" (Jones, 1998, p. 199), but she did not offer an explanation as to why.
Two or more independent coders agree on the coding of the content of interest using the same coding scheme (Cho in Lavrakas, p.345).
What is inter-coder reliability?
“...rich, deep, detailed descriptions”; “explaining participants perspectives and developing an understanding of the meanings they attach to the phenomena of interest.”
What is Qualitative Methods?
Mainstreamed across all research designs.
What are ethics?
In creating semi-structured interviews, questions should elicit the following:
Depth
Vividness
Nuance
Richness
Includes sources cited within the body and notes of your paper.
What is a reference list or works cited page?
Organizing data into categories that help you understand and interpret the data.
What is coding?