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A. Qualitative Research
B. Philosophy/Theory
C. Paradigms
D. Methodologies
E. Mixed Topics
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A1. Qualitative Researchers seek to answer questions about the what, ________, and why of a phenomenon?
What is --- How?
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B1. What we believe about the nature of reality and truth (e.g., single vs. multiple truths) is known as ________?
What is --- Ontology?
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C1. Under what paradigm do researchers aim to identify the true causes of illness (and health) and evaluate the most effective interventions?
What is --- a Positivist paradigm?
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D1. This methodology aims to understand the processes of a phenomenon and build theory from data?
What is Grounded theory?
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E1. List five examples of qualitative data?
What are --- interview transcripts, group discussion transcripts, observation accounts, field notes, websites, blogs, audio-visual accounts, twitter feeds, Facebook posts and comments, newspaper articles, images?
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A2. Researchers search for universal laws and put emphasis on the empirical verification, logically deduced hypotheses, operationally defined concepts and variables and the value-free conduct of research?
What is --- quantitative method?
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B2. This branch of philosophy considers how we come to know what we know?
What is --- Epistemology?
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C2. Under what paradigm do researchers aim to understand how what people do relates to how they make sense of the world around them?
What is an Interpretivist/Constructivist paradigm?
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D2. Overall, in a phenomenological inquiry, a researcher looks for the meaning, structure and essence of what kind of experiences and transform those experiences into consciousness?
What are --- lived experiences (i.e., how participants experience their day-to-day life)?
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E2. Under this paradigm, Tom aims to identify and compare opportunities for MPH students across different ethnic groups at graduate schools in Toronto and Vancouver.
What is --- a Positivist paradigm?
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A3. Good qualitative research focuses on how participants give ______ to their lived experience?
What is --- meaning ?
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B3. Some researchers aim to build it while others aim to test it, and in most applied research, it remains implied or hidden, but it is central to any research. What is it?
What is --- Theory?
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C3. Researchers using lenses of feminism, intersectionality and critical race theories are mostly situated in what paradigm?
What is --- a Critical paradigm?
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D3. Researchers using a phenomenological approach do this to set aside the taken-for-granted assumptions of the world to understand how participants experience the every-day world.
What is --- bracketing?
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E3. What links theories and paradigms to research question and method (i.e., it informs how we should study the world)?
What is --- Methodology?
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A4. Qualitative researchers preferring to study a phenomenon in their natural environment is known as what?
What is --- naturalism?
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B4. This research approach starts with an inductive logic, then focuses on emerging data using a deductive logic.
What is --- Grounded theory?
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C4. Under this paradigm, Tina aims to explore the lived experiences of employed MPH students and how they give meaning to their graduate life.
What is --- an Interpretivist/Constructivist paradigm?
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D4. The following research question is more aligned with what kind of methodology? What is the lived experience of medical dominance of young mothers who use drugs in Toronto?
What is --- Phenomenology?
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E4. What are the purposes of Critical research paradigm?
What are --- social change, emancipation, exposé, redistribution?
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A5. A focus on meaning and understanding, naturalism, reflexivity, flexibility, and an emphasis on thick description and process are characteristics of what?
What is --- qualitative research?
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B5. A researcher critically examining their research relative to background, bias and assumptions is involved in what?
What is --- reflexivity?
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C5. Under this paradigm, a team of qualitative researchers collaborate with Aboriginal students to reveal how power structures create health inequities for Aboriginal Peoples.
What is --- a Critical paradigm?
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D5. Instead of a top-down approach (i.e., starting with a theory), an approach that starts with data and ends with a theory is an example of what kind of approach?
What is --- a bottom-up (or an inductive) approach?
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E5. Critical researchers are value-driven, but interpretivist researchers are what?
What are --- value-disclosed researchers (i.e., they critically examine their background, bias and assumptions that they bring to their research)?