Question 1

What are the two main properties of a mixed methods research (quantitative and qualitative)?

Accepted Answer

A) Determining the research question and the priority of approaches 
B) Determining the priority and sequencing of approaches 
C) Determining the research question and the sampling techniques 
D) Determining the sampling techniques and the sequencing of approaches 
E) Determining the sequencing of approaches and the data collection 
A) Determining the research question and the priority of approaches 
B) Determining the priority and sequencing of approaches 
C) Determining the research question and the sampling techniques 
D) Determining the sampling techniques and the sequencing of approaches 
E) Determining the sequencing of approaches and the data collection

Question 2

What two methodological approaches were used in Kidd's (2004,2006)sequential study of suicide among street youth in Canada?

Accepted Answer

A) Qualitative interviews and survey research 
B) Focus groups and survey research 
C) Content analysis and field research 
D) Discourse analysis and survey research 
E) Survey research and field research 
A) Qualitative interviews and survey research 
B) Focus groups and survey research 
C) Content analysis and field research 
D) Discourse analysis and survey research 
E) Survey research and field research

Question 3

What are the major advantages and disadvantages common to all quantitative approaches?

Accepted Answer

● Advantages of quantitative approaches-

Question 4

Identify two of the four major quantitative approaches treated in your text and discuss their disadvantages.

Accepted Answer

● Survey research o respondents may unde

Question 5

Compare and contrast the development of theory in mixed methods research.What determines how theory is generated in sequential mixed methods studies and in concurrent mixed methods studies?

Accepted Answer

● Theory in Sequential Mixed Methods Stu

Question 6

What is considered to be the principal advantage of using qualitative methods as an approach to doing social research?

Accepted Answer

A) Qualitative methods give "voice" to research participants. 
B) Qualitative methods are relatively inexpensive. 
C) Qualitative methods allow for causality to be established. 
D) Qualitative methods involve the collection of data from large samples. 
E) Qualitative methods require the researcher to spend a lot of time getting to know the research participants in a study. 
A) Qualitative methods give "voice" to research participants. 
B) Qualitative methods are relatively inexpensive. 
C) Qualitative methods allow for causality to be established. 
D) Qualitative methods involve the collection of data from large samples. 
E) Qualitative methods require the researcher to spend a lot of time getting to know the research participants in a study.

Question 7

What is one of the major advantages of field research compared to other qualitative approaches?

Accepted Answer

A) Participants in the study tend to feel empowered. 
B) Participants can give accounts in their own words and unexpected responses are encouraged. 
C) It's possible to make comparisons across time and space. 
D) The researcher is able to gain a deep understanding of a group and its members. 
E) Implied meanings in "text" situations can be revealed. 
A) Participants in the study tend to feel empowered. 
B) Participants can give accounts in their own words and unexpected responses are encouraged. 
C) It's possible to make comparisons across time and space. 
D) The researcher is able to gain a deep understanding of a group and its members. 
E) Implied meanings in "text" situations can be revealed.

Question 8

What is one of the major disadvantages of using field research compared to other qualitative forms of data collection?

Accepted Answer

A) The sample is often limited to university undergraduates. 
B) Subjects' behaviour may change if they know they are being studied. 
C) A fairly limited range of research questions can be addressed with this technique. 
D) It can take the researcher a considerable amount of time to become acquainted with the data. 
E) The conditions under which the research and data gathering take place are often artificial. 
A) The sample is often limited to university undergraduates. 
B) Subjects' behaviour may change if they know they are being studied. 
C) A fairly limited range of research questions can be addressed with this technique. 
D) It can take the researcher a considerable amount of time to become acquainted with the data. 
E) The conditions under which the research and data gathering take place are often artificial.

Question 9

Define the following:
-mixed methods

Accepted Answer

When more than one research me

Question 10

Define the following:
-epistemic prioritization

Accepted Answer

The results of quantitative findings are

Question 11

In social scientific research,__________ design is the opposite of mixed methods design.

Accepted Answer

A) priority 
B) concurrent 
C) sequential 
D) univariate 
E) monostrand 
A) priority 
B) concurrent 
C) sequential 
D) univariate 
E) monostrand

Question 12

Define the following:
-institutional ethnography (IE)

Accepted Answer

A specific methodological approach where

Question 13

Define the following:
-monostrand design

Accepted Answer

A research design us

Question 14

What happens if,while using a mixed methods research design,a researcher obtains conflicting results in the qualitative and quantitative parts of a mixed methods study? What possibilities exist for a researcher if the results appear to be contradictory or do not agree with each other?

Accepted Answer

● In order to resolve conflicting result

Question 15

Identify two of the four major quantitative approaches treated in your text and discuss their advantages.

Accepted Answer

● Survey research o possible to cover la

What are the two main properties of a mixed methods research (quantitative and qualitative)?

What two methodological approaches were used in Kidd's (2004,2006)sequential study of suicide among street youth in Canada?

What are the major advantages and disadvantages common to all quantitative approaches?

Identify two of the four major quantitative approaches treated in your text and discuss their disadvantages.

Compare and contrast the development of theory in mixed methods research.What determines how theory is generated in sequential mixed methods studies and in concurrent mixed methods studies?

What is considered to be the principal advantage of using qualitative methods as an approach to doing social research?

What is one of the major advantages of field research compared to other qualitative approaches?

What is one of the major disadvantages of using field research compared to other qualitative forms of data collection?

Define the following: -mixed methods

Define the following: -epistemic prioritization

In social scientific research,__________ design is the opposite of mixed methods design.

Define the following: -institutional ethnography (IE)

Define the following: -monostrand design

What happens if,while using a mixed methods research design,a researcher obtains conflicting results in the qualitative and quantitative parts of a mixed methods study? What possibilities exist for a researcher if the results appear to be contradictory or do not agree with each other?

Identify two of the four major quantitative approaches treated in your text and discuss their advantages.

Doing Social Research

Theory and Social Research

Ethics in Social Research

Reviewing the Scholarly Literature and Planning a Study

Designing a Study

Qualitative and Quantitative Measurement

Qualitative and Quantitative Sampling

Survey Research

Experimental Research

Nonreactive Quantitative Research and Secondary Analysis

Analysis of Quantitative Data

Qualitative Interviewing

Field Research

Nonreactive Qualitative Research

Analysis of Qualitative Data

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Exam 16: Combining Methods in Social Science Research

What are the two main properties of a mixed methods research (quantitative and qualitative)?

What two methodological approaches were used in Kidd's (2004,2006)sequential study of suicide among street youth in Canada?

What are the major advantages and disadvantages common to all quantitative approaches?

Identify two of the four major quantitative approaches treated in your text and discuss their disadvantages.

Compare and contrast the development of theory in mixed methods research.What determines how theory is generated in sequential mixed methods studies and in concurrent mixed methods studies?

What is considered to be the principal advantage of using qualitative methods as an approach to doing social research?

What is one of the major advantages of field research compared to other qualitative approaches?

What is one of the major disadvantages of using field research compared to other qualitative forms of data collection?

Define the following: -mixed methods

Define the following: -epistemic prioritization

In social scientific research,__________ design is the opposite of mixed methods design.

Define the following: -institutional ethnography (IE)

Define the following: -monostrand design

What happens if,while using a mixed methods research design,a researcher obtains conflicting results in the qualitative and quantitative parts of a mixed methods study? What possibilities exist for a researcher if the results appear to be contradictory or do not agree with each other?

Identify two of the four major quantitative approaches treated in your text and discuss their advantages.

Doing Social Research

Theory and Social Research

Ethics in Social Research

Reviewing the Scholarly Literature and Planning a Study

Designing a Study

Qualitative and Quantitative Measurement

Qualitative and Quantitative Sampling

Survey Research

Experimental Research

Nonreactive Quantitative Research and Secondary Analysis

Analysis of Quantitative Data

Qualitative Interviewing

Field Research

Nonreactive Qualitative Research

Analysis of Qualitative Data

Filters