Design Types
A Greek word meaning "to refrain from judgement"; used in research design that examines a phenomenon.
What is Epoche?
Individuals with this worldview desire to predict, control, and generalize.
What is positivism or postpositivism?
When sufficient data is collection and analyzed to the point that we see nothing new in it we know we've achieved this.
What is saturation?
Critical self-reflection by the researcher regarding assumptions, worldview, biases, theoretical orientation, and relationship to the study that may affect the investigation.
What is reflexivity?
Aliens have been known to do this, so have qualitative researchers who perform excellent and effective interviews.
What is probing?
A research design where the central focus is the examination of a culture.
What is an ethnography?
Change, Empower, Emancipate are the main goals of researchers with this worldview.
What is a critical worldview?
The assignment of some sort of shorthand designation to various aspects of your data so that you can easily retrieve specific pieces of data is known as this.
What is coding?
Using multiple investigators, sources of data, or data collection methods to confirm emerging findings.
What is triangulation?
This document helped to establish rules and regulations for the ethical treatment of human subjects in research.
What is the Belmont Report?
Show me the data and I'll tell you a story about this research design.
What is a narrative study?
If a researcher wants to deconstruct, problematize, question, and interrupt, they might hold this worldview.
What is a postmodern or post structural worldview?
This approach to analysis uses theory to code units of data.
What is a priori coding or directed content analysis?
Taking tentative interpretations/findings back to the people from whom they were derived and asking if they are plausible?
What is member checking?
Rapport building is particularly important in this type of data collection.
What is an interview?
Bob Marley sang about "one love," this research design is concerned with "one bounded system" (a person, place, event, or thing)
What is a case study?
Reality is co-constructed and embedded in interaction for these worldview holders.
Who are social constructivists or social constructionists?
Use this approach when seeking to understand the underlying or hidden meanings and power inherent in words.
What is discourse analysis?
Providing this means the research gives enough description to contextualize the study such that readers will be able to determine the extent to which their situations match the research context, and hence, whether findings can be transferred.
What is a "thick description"?
This approach to interviewing uses open ended questions and a general topical guide but allows for conversation and dialogue to flow naturally.
What is semi-structured interviewing?
Sometimes teenagers break curfew and parents respond with consequences, this approach will help you explain and conceptualize how it happens.
What is a grounded theory study?
Individuals with this worldview may have a challenging time conceptualizing qualitative research methodology when they can't prove Truth.
What is positivism?
What is grounded theory?
A detailed account of the methods, procedures, and decision points in carrying out the study.
What is an audit trail?
An artifact is an example of a piece of data used in this form of data collection.
What is document analysis?