The Thing
This method uses guiding questions but allows the participant to lead the conversation.
What is a semi-structured interview?
The most commonly occurring value in a numerical data set.
What is the mode?
This report, released in 1979 created guidelines for ethical research in the United States.
What is the Belmont Report?
This term describes the entire group you want to understand — like all students at a university.
What is the population?
A student says their survey is “anonymous,” but they also collected emails for extra credit. You explain that this actually makes their survey this.
What is confidential (not anonymous)?
This observational product includes both descriptive notes and your immediate reflections.
What are field notes?
This process uses multiple data sources to cross-check findings for credibility.
What is triangulation?
This ongoing self-questioning process helps researchers stay ethically accountable and aware of bias.
What is reflexivity?
This term means your measure gives the same results when you use it again.
What is reliability?
Name three tips for crafting a research question. Think Dos/Donts.
Varies.
This social method allows you to map who talks to whom, who supports whom, or who shares resources in a group.
What is social network analysis (SNA)?
A table aligning qualitative themes and quantitative results to synthesize meaning is called this.
What is a crosswalk?
Tuck (2009) warns against this kind of research that defines communities solely by harm or trauma.
What is damage-centered research?
Turning a concept like “community well-being” into measurable indicators is this step.
What is operationalization?
A step in between when your survey is complete and when you begin to recruit.
What is pilot testing?
The method used when you have members of a youth group take photos and write captions to explore how their neighborhood shapes their feelings of safety.
What is photovoice?
A form of coding that uses the participant's own words as the code labels.
What is in-vivo coding?
The process of confirming findings with participants.
What is member-checking?
This term describes the thing you’re actually studying — whether it’s people, neighborhoods, relationships, or memes.
What is the unit of analysis?
Your professor's zodiac sign.
What is Virgo?
During an interview, a participant keeps giving short answers. You switch to follow-up questions like, “Can you tell me more about that?” You’re using this interviewing skill to improve your data.
What is probing?
The method you were taught to prepare quantitative data for analysis. You must describe at least 3 of the steps.
What is the CLEANR method?
Compile
Label/Name
Examine
Alter
Reconfigure/Re-examine
New Variables
A researcher enters a community, collects interviews, publishes a paper, and never returns. This violates this major ethical principle in community work.
What is non-extractive research?
You want to study “community safety,” so you intentionally recruit people who have experience with policing or neighborhood issues. You’re using this sampling strategy.
What is purposive sampling?
A hater tells you arts-based research isn't real research. Give them a three-pronged rebuttle in support of ABR.
Varies.