The research question
True or false:
Qualitative research questions avoid terminaology such as cause/effect and often begin with verbs such as "explore," "inquire," "describe," etc.
True
The purpose of this research design is to understand and describe the lived experience from the view of the research participant; researchers' assumptions logged to help researcher identify preconceived info on a phenomenon.
This type of purposive sampling relies on participants to recommend others within their group.
What is Snowball?
Checking themes and accuracy of data with participants is called ___ ____ and contributes to trustworthiness.
What is member checking?
This is the first phase of data analysis, regardless of the qualitative method used.
What is..... Familiarization of the data/ reading and re-reading / data reduction?
(all acceptable answers)
Quantitative research questions lead researchers to use deductive reasoning, while qualitative research leads to ___________ reasoning.
What is inductive?
The purpose of this research design is to develop new theories from the collected data.
What is grounded theory?
This case sampling method is used when the researchers want to illustrate "average" cases within the population.
What is typical case sampling?
Name one drawback of using videotaping.
-Participants' discomfort
- difficult/time consuming to transcribe (nonverbal gestures, for example
-Editing can introduce bias
-data storage challenges
After the first phase, researchers must ____ the data before developing themes.
What is "code" or "index."?
Identify the context and population of this research question?
Explore the experiences of young adults with schizophrenia undergoing pet-assisted therapy in an inpatient psychiatric unit.
Context: in-patient psych unit
Population: young adults with schizophrenia
In this design, participants are generally referred to as informants because they provide the researcher with an insider perspective, often related to a culture or subculture.
What is ethnography?
Another term for extreme case sampling (where the purpose is to learn from unusual or outlier cases).
What is deviant?
What data collection method do both narrative and phenomenology have in common?
a. artifact collection
b. interviews
c. focus groups
d. observation bracketing
e. constant comparative methods
What is interviews?
Peer ____ is one way to improve credibility of findings; another name for checking codes/ themes with other researchers.
What is debriefing?
Choose the best answer:
A research question should be:
neutral
subjective
leading
fact-based
What is neutral?
In using this qualitative design, researchers report their findings often in chronological order and focus on storytelling.
What is narrative?
This sampling focuses on a particular subgroup where all participants share similar traits/experiences.
What is homogenous sampling?
An example of this is collecting data from multiple sources, such as observations, interviews, and written records. It starts with a T.
What is triangulation?
Researchers acknowledging their biases and assumptions is called ___ and is necessary for confirmability or managing researcher bias. Can be done using journals or during bracketing.
What is reflexivity?
Identify one way to improve this qualitative research question:
Why is there a high turnover rate of rehab staff at Good Hope Hospital?
What is (multiple answers possible)
Start with discover, inquire, describe, explore, what, how
Focus on barriers to retention, or how do employees rate their job quality and what major challenges do they experience during employment?
Narrative and phenomenology designs are based on what theoretical perspective?
What is interpretivism?
When you wish to understand common patterns across a diverse group, you would use ____ _____ sampling (2 words).
What is maximum variation sampling?
Including rich, detailed descriptions of the population and setting helps contribute mainly to this aspect of trustworthiness.
What is transferability, or external validity?
What is it called when 2 researchers develop their own themes independently based on coded data?
What is stepwise replication?