Exam 20: Data Analysis in Qualitative and Mixed Research

Discuss the entire qualitative data analysis process starting with data preparation, coding, finding relationships, displaying data, and drawing inferences.

In mixed analysis, ____ involves correlating or cross-classifying different data types, such as transforming qualitative data into categorical variables and examining their relationships with quantitative variables.

A researcher does a study of elementary schools. He develops a typology that classifies all schools into one of five different separate and distinct classifications. This typology is:

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 inductive codes.

Which of the following pictures is a network diagram?

Facesheet codes apply to a complete document or case.

Codes that are generated by a researcher by directly examining the data are called:

Describe the cells of the mixed research data analysis matrix. Be sure to describe the differences between monoanalysis, multianalysis, monodata, and multidata.

A researcher is studying discipline in classrooms. She observes that teachers often take students into the cloak room to scold them or discipline them in some other way. The cloak room is the place where disciplining is done. Which of Spradley's categories of semantic relations is reflected in the description presented above?

A researcher does a mixed methods study on teacher burnout. She initially does a survey of teachers across several districts. The survey includes information on the school's location and demographics, as well as questions about the amount of time teachers spend on different activities (classroom time, planning time, bus duty, after school activities, grading, and support networks-from school or family). After the survey, she visits a sample of teachers who indicated on the survey that they were thinking of leaving the profession. She decides to do multiple case studies of these teachers. She observes the teachers for two days and interviews the teachers. Describe the processes that you would use to do a mixed data analysis of these data.

A researcher is interested in whether a group of counselors who have counseled students who subsequently committed violent crimes mentioned any common characteristics of such children. She finds that in one case the violent crime was associated with a traumatic divorce and abuse by a stepparent. She decides to do a search in the computer program she has to see if this were true for other cases. Which of the following searches would find both of those events occurring?

List the three most popular computer programs that are used to analyze qualitative data.

A researcher does a study where he interviews teachers concerning their beliefs about grading. He notices that a code indicating belief in the objectivity of grades tends to appear along with a belief in the usefulness of multiple choice tests. The redundancy of these codes indicates that these codes are:

Describe the cells of the mixed research data analysis matrix.

Initial coding of qualitative research data is called first stage coding.

A list of all codes used in a research study is called:

Dr. Real developed a set of codes before beginning to code her data. These codes were based on her prior theory about what was important and what might be found in her the data. These codes were her a priori codes.

Juan is a qualitative researcher studying the lives of high school students in a rural community. He spends one day a week for 10 weeks in the school observing the social interactions of the students as they arrive, during lunch, and at after school activities. He also interviews the students and teachers. As he is reviewing the interview data, he remembers one day from the observations where he was perplexed about why the students interacted as they did. He jots down a note that reminds him that this interview provides them with a theory about the interactions he observed. This process of jotting notes as he examines the data is called:

A researcher does a mixed methods study of how teachers accommodate the learning preferences of students. One part of the study involves a quantitative measure of several learning preferences of students. The research takes the scores of students on the four different dimensions to create qualitative categories of learning preference. The researcher was engaged in what process?

Codes that are developed prior to examining the data are called: