Exam 14: Qualitative Data Analysis

What are the benefits and drawbacks of a thematic analysis? What are the benefits and drawbacks of a number matrix?

Transcription is important to document the narrative as source material and to allow easy access for review.

In face-to-face data collection, there is a tendency for the participants to report ___________________ comments.

Coding based on a theory that you are gathering evidence for would be a __________________ approach to qualitative research.

A ________________ approach to data analysis involves reading the raw data and looking for patterns without a theory in mind.

___________________ is a common method of collecting qualitative data.

Qualitative results are often reported as a ________________ with direct quotes as support.

In qualitative data analysis the codes eventually become the themes, which are then reported.

In Mary's case, she decides not to transcribe her data because it is too time consuming.

It can often be useful to use both quantitative and qualitative data together.

A ____________________ can help with organizing large amounts of qualitative data because it offers more refined, electronic based coding.

Qualitative research is always deductive in nature.

______________________ are key patterns identified in the data that may be important features of the phenomenon in question, according to the purposes of the research question.