Research Methods and approaches
Doing the Interview
Interviewer
Focus Groups
Miscellaneous
100
A single topic or event or place that a researcher uses many methods to study
What is case study
100
Before starting the interview, the researcher/practitioner and participant go over and sign this form
What is a consent form
100
Interviews that show good chemistry and communication are those that contain _______ between the participants
What is rapport
100
Most people think that focus groups can produce quantitative data. Can focus groups also produce qualitative data?
What is yes.
100
The theories, personal connection, literature that informs a study from its inception through the whole process
What is conceptual background or conceptual background
200
An observational method used to study communities that requires looking for particular elements in a location and recording observations
What is windshield survey
200
this type of interview structure begins with abstract questions at the start and moves towards general questions at the end
What is pyramid
200
The list of six to eight detailed questions and 2 prompts as follow-up to each question or a list of questions that one wants to cover is called an
What is interview guide
200
A _________ is the key to focus groups to ensuring that the group discussion goes smoothly.
What is moderator
200
Exploratory writing that one does for a research project other than the usual writing steps
What is memo
300
A method that brings together previously separate theories and ideas not usually applied together and that often works toward social justice
What is bricolage
300
Two words: One that indicates data kept and interpreted from the point of view of the participant/co-researcher and one that indicates interpretations/analysis from the point of view of the researcher, often data is collected and analyzed using both in a circular fashion
What is emit and etic
300
Continually evaluating one's role and influence on the research process
What is reflexivity
300
One of the strengths of focus groups
What is group builds information together; accessible for many groups to take part in; accessible for ease of understanding results; can be used to talk about so many topics,efficient in cost and time; permits deep probing and recording of gestures and body language; able to collect thick data that can be coded with sophistication
300
The name for increasing the positive aspects of research while decreasing the chance of harm to research participants
What is benificence
400
A place where documents are preserved and are accessible to a community
What is a community archive
400
Assesses the surface or visible content of documents, such as interview transcripts
What is manifest content analysis
400
A paradigm of research in which social change is a goal of the researcher
What is Critical Theory
400
One negative influence of the focus group participants inter-relating and communicating
What is having one person dominate the discussion or the opposite not having contributions from everyone and having the results be applicable to the group as a whole in that moment of interaction and not to each individual
400
Metaphor of how theory lights up previously unknown information
What is theory as a spotlight p. 49 of Maxwell 2013
500
A research paradigm in which the main purpose is to gather information on the lifeworld and perspectives of those they are researching with or about and is driven by the idea that the researcher is an actual research instrument.
What is Interpretative/Constructivism/Phenomenology
500
One of the five suggested steps for coding interview transcripts?
What is Develop preliminary coding system, Prepare the transcript for analysis, Ascribe codes to text, Retrieve similarly coded text, and Review the data by themes
500
"The interviewer is not a _________, and his/her 'race' and gender will not be expressed in any particular, homogenized way." (Archer, 2002, p. 126)
What is neutral figure
500
the outcome that can occur in a focus group when more information can be gathered on at topic because of productive group dynamics in comparison to an individual interview
What is synergy or synergism
500
Maxwell's model of research is made up of what five components?
What is research question in the middle with each corner being goals, conceptual framework, validity, and methods all feeding back and forth to each other.
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