Research Paradigms
There is an objective reality and we can understand it through the laws by which it is governed.
What is Positivism?
This is an evaluation of an evaluation.
What is a meta evaluation?
Unstructured, semi-structured and structured are all types of...
What are types of interviews?
Minutes of a meeting, program evaluations, and annual reports can be used for...
What are types of documents that can be used for data collection?
When doing this, one should pay more attention to program processes, implementation issues, and qualitative data.
What is program evaluation?
The belief that there are multiple realities that are constructed
What is the Constructivist Paradigm?
This renders an overall judgment about the effectiveness of a program, policy or product for the purpose of saying that the evaluand (thing being evaluated) is or is not effective.
What is a summative evaluation?
Interviewing more than one person at one time (in a group) is...
What is a Focus Group?
Photography
What is visual data that could be used as unobtrusive data?
When doing this, one must pay much more attention to outcomes, aggregate data, and cumulative information over time.
What is Quality Assurance?
The world and knowledge is created by social and contextual understanding.
What is the Interpretivist Paradigm?
Selecting information-rich cases for study in depth is called this.
What is purposeful sampling?
While doing this, you should remain neutral and don't interrupt.
What is what you should do when conducting an interview?
Watching fanatic sports behavior is an example of...
What is participant observation?
You judge the effectiveness of the program to make decisions about its future when you are completing an...
What is an outcomes evaluation?
This research paradigm suggests that reality exists and has been created by directed social bias.
What is the Critical Research Paradigm?
This issue is extremely ambiguous when designing a qualitative research study.
What is sample size?
Asking open ended questions.
What is the type of questions that should be asked in an interview?
Careful and objective notes about what you see are...
What are field notes?
You use this to understand what is behind the numbers.
What are stories?
The ontology of this paradigm is: reality is the practical effects of ideas.
What is the Pragmatic Paradigm?
Identifying cases of interest from sampling people who know people.
What is snowball or chain sampling?
1. Introduce yourself and topic
2. Ask easy questions and show empathy
3. Ask tough questions or more sensitive topics
4. Lighten up and end positive
5. End with "You have given me a lot to think about" and leave the door open to contact again.
What are the stages of an interview?
When you're doing this, you should use a critical eye, view in context, and determine relevance.
What is analyzing documents?
When you look at how something happens rather than or in addition to examining outputs and outcomes, you are doing this.
What are process studies?