Interview Methods
Considerations
Evaluation
Data Analysis
General Qualitative
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What are three types of interview methods?
semi-structured. narrative. focus group.
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What are two common sampling methods that might be used to get participants for a qualitative study using interviews?
Purposive and Snowball
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What is one limitation of focus group interviews?
Only dominant people might talk. Conformity might influence results.
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What is the goal of inductive content analysis?
To identify themes from the data and draw conclusions from those themes in regards to the research aim.
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What is triangulation?
Gathering and/or analysing data using more than one resource.
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What two types of questions are used in semi-structured interviews?
Open and closed
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What are two ways the researcher might unknowingly influence the data gathered in an interview?
Their gender. Body language. Leading questions.
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What is one limitation of narrative interviews?
Time consuming data analysis. Participants may be reluctant to speak.
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What does ICA stand for?
Inductive Content Analysis
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What is reflexivity?
The need for the researcher to continually be thinking about how their pre-existing beliefs may influence the research process.
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What type of questions would be asked in focus group interviews?
Open questions. If they wanted the responses from a group to closed questions they would give a survey or questionnaire, probably.
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What is one way the social desirability effect could be reduced when gathering data using interviews?
Triangulate data gathered from focus groups.
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what is one strength of focus group interviews?
An increase in ecological validity if the dialogue is conversational and people can speak in a relaxed manner. You can get a lot of data in a short amount of time.
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What is credibility?
How trustworthy the data and conclusions are. In other words, how accurately do the researchers conclusions regarding the participants' experiences of the phenomenon actually resemble the "truth".
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What are the four phases of the narrative interview method?
Presentation; Main Narration; Follow-up questions; Small Talk
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What type of transcription method includes details like voice tone, body language and non-verbal communication?
Post-modern
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What is one limitation of semi-structured interviews?
Social desirability may be a factor as the participant may feel pressured being in an environment with just the researcher and will want to give answers they think the researcher wants. The artificiality of the environment may affect results.
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What are the four steps of ICA?
Reading/re-reading. Identifying raw themes. Coding into superordinate and subordinate themes. Data Saturdation.
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What is one goal of qualitative research?
To describe (or explain) a particular group's experience of a phenomenon.
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What are two different types of groups that may be used in focus group interviews?
heterogeneous or homogeneous. Naive or Concerned.
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What is the name of the transcription method were the interview is transcribed verbatim?
Traditional Transcription.
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What is one strength of narrative interviews?
Story telling transcends cultures so it can be used for cross-cultural research The process of telling the narrative involves schematic processing, so the participant is required to make their own meaning of their experiences.
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What is the major difference between data analysis in interviews and observation?
It's the same process, basically, except in observations you need to add a lot more contextual descriptions about where, when who etc. regarding the observation and the conclusions drawn from the analysis.
500
What is Mr. Dixon's middle name?
Jon. There is no h, because my parents knew I'd be a bad speler and didn't want to contuse me.
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