Exam 20: Data Analysis in Qualitative and Mixed Research

Describe the procedures used to analyze qualitative data.

A word, or more typically, a set of words denoting an important idea that occurs multiple times in your data is called:

A researcher studies the process of increasing achievement in schools that are failing. She finds that the first step to successful change was to give the principal leeway in following the school districts rules. The next step was to allow the principal to hand pick his or her staff. The example above is best represented by which of Spradley's taxonomy of semantic relations?

In looking at the relationships between coding categories, the relation, "X is used for Y," in Spradley's taxonomy of semantic relations is labeled:

Code some text data.

The mixed research data analysis matrix used in your textbook is constructed by crossing the dimension of analysis types and the dimension of data types.

While examining her data set Dr. Real found many data points that did not fit her predetermined codes. So she generated new codes as she examined the data based on what she was observing in the data. These new codes are called a priori codes.

In mixed research joint displays are a useful way to organize and make sense of quantitative and qualitative data.

Boolean searches cannot be done with qualitative data analysis programs.

In mixed research analysis, evaluating the findings of the qualitative and quantitative analyses is known as:

A researcher is doing a study of peer groups in middle school. She interviews five girls and five boys. She is doing a grounded theory study; hence, she decides to start by generating her codes as she scans through her transcriptions of her data. These codes are labeled:

What is the identification and interpretation of symbolic meaning of visual data called?

Searching for potential ways of classifying inductive codes into successive levels or layers is called:

The process of quantifying data in qualitative research is called:

In qualitative data analysis, the term typology is used to signify Spradley's cause-effect semantic relationships.

In qualitative analyses, there should be no co-occurring codes. All codes should be mutually exclusive.

In mixed analysis, ____ involves quantitizing and/or qualitizing data.

In mixed data analysis, multidata-monoanalysis is rarely used.

In mixed research analysis, creating representations of your quantitative data and/or your qualitative data is known as:

A researcher does a study of students' phenomenological feelings about problem solving. One of her categories of codes involves positive affect. Two subcategories of that category of positive affect are (1) smiling when solves the problem and (2) shouting hooray when finished. The relation between these subcategories and the overall category of positive affect is: