Deck 7: What Is Qualitative Research

Question 1

When a research report reflects the lived experience of the research participants and others who identify with them, we say the research has achieved the criteria of truth for a qualitative study. This is called:

A) Phenomenological validity
B) Objectivity
C) Positivism
D) Empiricism
E) Objectification

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The methods of qualitative research are often inductive. This means that:

A) Observation precedes theory, hypotheses and interpretation
B) Theory guides the generation of hypotheses, which in turn determines the methods of observation and analysis.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Research that focuses on problem-solving for the betterment of the community is called:

A) Action research
B) Triangulation
C) Positivism
D) Observation
E) Crisis of representation

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The social construction of reality reflects the viewpoint that there is a physical knowable reality that can be observed, broken into parts and analyzed by a trained researcher.

Question 5

Which of the following is a characterization of a grand narrative?

A) Prescribed sequence
B) Required elements
C) Identifiable functions
D) Script
E) All of the above

Question 6

What is it called when the act of observation itself causes a change in the variable being studied?

A) Heisenberg uncertainty principle
B) Colonialism/imperialism
C) Crisis of representation
D) Phenomenological validity
E) Triangulation

Question 7

What is the criticism of research in which the research assumes a superior position to the persons or culture being studied?

A) Heisenberg uncertainty principle
B) Colonialism/imperialism
C) Crisis of representation
D) Phenomenological validity
E) Triangulation

Question 8

Questions regarding whose experiences are being presented and whose interpretations (the participants' or the researchers') have authority in research reports, are associated with what Denzin and Lincoln call:

A) The crisis of representation
B) Qualitative purists
C) Quantitative purists
D) Reformed quantitative research
E) Triangulation

Question 9

Which of the following is a criticism of positivist assumptions in research?

A) People cannot be isolated or sorted into groups on the basis of similar criteria.
B) People change
C) Prediction explanation and understanding of the aggregate can perpetuate the power of dominant cultural groups
D) Research "subjects" risk being "objectified" as objects rather than recognized as people
E) All of the above

Question 10

Which of the following approaches to research is focused on giving voice to silenced people and groups?

A) Qualitative
B) Quantitative