Qualitative Questions
"What is the culture of this group of people?" is a great question for this method.
This is the term used for the group of participants from which your data comes.
What is a sample?
This type of pasta is frequently used in the popular dish, Mac and cheese.
What is elbow macaroni.
This convenient techniques allows researchers to include any participants who consent and meet the inclusion criteria.
What is a convenient sample?
This is the process of identifying concepts in the data.
What is Coding?
This method is ideal for the question "What is the meaning, structure, and essence of this lived experience?"
What is phenomenology
This is the type of sample that is used, and must be used, in qualitative research.
What is purposive (sample/sampling)?
This type of pasta goes well with alfredo sauces.
What is fettucine?
This type of sampling highlights typicality in it's participants.
What is Typical Case sampling?
This type of coding, like dating, results in finding specific things the researcher is looking for.
What is Selective Coding?
"What does this story reveal about the person and the world from which it came?" is an example question for this method.
What is Narrative (Analysis)?
This is what researchers use to monitor, acknowledge, and (sometimes) analyze their own reactions to participant responses.
What is reflexivity?
This type of pasta is tubular and hollow, often stuffed with cheese, and covered in red sauce. It's name translates to "little sleeve."
What is Manicotti (or Cannelloni)?
This sampling technique has researchers select all participants who meet previously determined criteria.
What is criterion sampling?
This type of analysis involves using all data to identify anything that comes from the responses.
What is Complete Coding?
"How do my own experiences of this culture connect with and offer insights about the culture, situation, etc.?" is an example question for this method.
Also a term used when someone is completely soaked; when a researcher has enough data to confidently stop data collection, they have reached this state?
What is saturation (saturated)?
This type of pasta is the same length as spaghetti but has a thin hold running through the length of it.
What is Buccatini?
Used in winter-time fights, this type of sampling has participants use their network to help the researcher find additional participants.
What is Snowball Sampling?
These are the result of placing similar codes together.
What are categories?
"How can I explain this phenomenon using systematic, comparative analysis of the data?" is a good question for this method.
Farfalle is a type of pasta that takes this shape.
This sampling technique is theory driven, and is useful for researching latent or theoretical constructs.
What is Theory-based sampling?
These are typically the end result for a qualitative study; the identification of _____ in categories.
What are themes?