Methods
It determines the type of design and methods used to study a phenomenon of interest.
What is "the research question?"
The assumption that reality is not a singular or objective experience, but is shaped by human experiences and social cultural contexts and is best studied by understanding subjective experiences of individuals.
What is the interpretive research paradigm?
The use of two or more different data sources, investigators and/or methods of data collection.
What is triangulation?
Collecting data from a subset of a population or group who is most directly impacted by a research question.
What is sampling?
An ethics committee that reviews and approves a study's protocols.
What is an IRB?
A form of research that requires long-term participant- observation within a particular context or setting, and is conducted over time to reveal what happens during people's daily lives. Data are collected from "real world" contexts.
What is an ethnography?
Knowledge is created through social and cultural interactions and shared collectively. That is, people produce knowledge and form meanings of reality based upon their experiences. As such reality is a subjective creation.
What is constructivist theory of knowledge development?
Providing an audit trail and transparently describing the research steps taken from the start of a research project to the analysis and reporting of the findings.
What is dependability and confirmability?
A common sampling strategy where participants in a study are preselected based on their expertise or other criteria relevant to the research question.
What is purposive sampling?
A mechanism for ensuring that people understand what it means to participate in a particular research study so they can decide in a conscious, deliberate way whether they want to participate.
What is informed consent?
Research in which emphasis is on the individual's perceptions and lived experiences of life.
What is phenomenology?
Knowledge derived from research methods and questions emerging out of a particular cultural orientation, set of values, a highly specified language, and structures of power.
What is imperialism? (Tuhiwai Smith, pp. 44-45)
Providing thick descriptions in qualitative research reports, including experiences of participants and the context in which the study was conducted promotes ______.
What is transferability?
When participants in a study with whom contact has already been made use their social networks to refer the researcher to other people who could potentially contribute and participate.
What is snowball sampling?
Survival, recovery, development and self-determination.
What is the Indigenous research agenda according to Linda Tuhiwai Smith (2012)?
(Tuhiwai Smith, 2011, pp. 119-122)
It is both a method of inquiry and a product of the research.
What is grounded theory?
The peripheralization of persons and groups from a dominant, central majority.
What is marginalization?
Marginalization Revisited: Critical, Postmodern, and Liberation Perspectives by Joanne Hall (1999)
Prolonged engagement with participants; building trust; investing sufficient time to become familiar with the research setting and context; and testing for misinformation establishes ______.
What is credibility?
Asking pre-established open-ended questions of every respondent.
What is a structured interview?
The document adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948, and was the result of the international community vowing to never again allow atrocities like those that happened during WWII happen again.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
In this qualitative method, participants share the role of co-researchers.
What is participatory action research (PAR)?
It is from the exteriorized that hope can come. Those who have experiences outside the dominant power systems and structures can invent novel responses to the failures of the dominant systems, because they can see from the outside more clearly.
What is liberation?
Marginalization Revisited: Critical, Postmodern, and Liberation Perspectives by Joanne Hall (1999)
Researchers keeping a diary in which they examine their own conceptual lens, explicit and implicit assumptions, preconceptions and values, and how these affect research decisions.
What is reflexivity.
Comprehending, synthesising, theorising and recontextualising.
What are strategies for a particular qualitative analysis centred on the work of Miles and Huberman (1994) and outlined by J. Morse?