Exam 20: Data Analysis in Qualitative and Mixed Research

A researcher is doing a study of students' concepts of bullying. She starts out with a set of codes that she developed from a previous study of bullying. These codes are labeled:

In the class of analysis called monodata-multianalysis, both quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques are used.

A researcher studies the characteristics of effective deans of colleges of education. She finds that deans who have weaker academic credentials than their faculty are ineffective. The example above is best represented by which of Spradley's taxonomy of semantic relations?

In the class of analysis called multidata-multianalysis, both quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques are used.

In mixed analysis, ____ refers to describing visually your quantitative data and/or your qualitative data.

A classification system that breaks something down into different types or kinds.

A network diagram can be used in qualitative and in quantitative research.

Jimmy wanted to be sure that his coding was consistent throughout the course of his study and so he asked a colleague to help him review his coding at points throughout the project. His colleague was checking for intracoder reliability.

In looking at the relationships between coding categories, the relation, "X is a step (stage) in Y," in Spradley's taxonomy of semantic relations is labeled:

The process of dividing data into meaningful analytic units is called:

When a qualitative researcher makes a sketch, drawing, or outline to clarify something, this is called:

Understand the terminology surrounding qualitative data analysis.

Know some of the common types of relationships found in qualitative data.

Describe the seven analytical procedures used in mixed analysis.

In her mixed research analysis, Dr. Page has just combined her qualitative and quantitative findings into a coherent whole. This is an example of:

In-vivo codes:

Qualitative researchers are not concerned with corroborating and validating results.

In mixed data analysis researchers seldom try to integrate quantitative and qualitative data.

Co-occurring codes will result in some data falling into two or more categories.

Keneshia is studying how school counselors engage in one-to-one career counseling with high school students. She records and transcribes the dialogue between the students and the counselors in the sessions. What would be the unit that he would use to segment the transcribed data set?