Deck 8: Planning Your Qualitative Study: Design, Sampling, and Data Analysis

Question 1

A process of developing core categories for further analysis by looking for: (a) words, phrases, or behaviors that occur frequently across cases; (b) are emphasized, and (c) are repeated within cases, is called _______________.

A) grounded theory approach
B) reflexive validity
C) exploratory questions
D) metaphor analysis
E) material culture

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Interpretive interactionalism refers to the degree to which the researcher fully explores how he or she interacts with the history, context, culture, and participants.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

In qualitative research the size of a sample is considered sufficient when the criteria of ____________ is met.

A) Redundancy
B) Reflexive inquiry
C) Situated knowledge
D) Grounded theory
E) Action

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The crisis of legitimization in qualitative research identified by Denzin & Lincoln concerns which of the following issues?

A) How can qualitative researchers make claims of reality and truth?
B) If reality and truth are relative to culture, context and individual interpretations, how can research be evaluated?
C) If methods emerge from data analysis, how can the rigor of qualitative research be assessed?
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 5

What is the purpose of identifying the focus of inquiry in designing qualitative research?

A) To establish boundaries for the investigation
B) To debrief participants
C) To identify themes in the data
D) To create interpretive interactionalism
E) To identify documents and material culture

Question 6

Which of the following is concerned with authenticity, reflexive validity, and phenomenological validity?

A) Degree to which data reflects the lived experience (including the tacit knowledge) of participants
B) Degree to which the recording of data and method of data collection preserve the experience of the participants
C) Degree to which participants agree with the researcher's interpretations of their lived experience
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 7

A purposeful sample is comprised of people selected on the basis of a particular attribute.

Question 8

Lincoln & Guba argue that the best instruments for qualitative research are:

A) Human instruments
B) Nonhuman instruments

Question 9

Action research is research that promotes social change, policy change, problem solving, or program development and evaluation.

Question 10

The purity of the recorded data in a qualitative study in comparison to the actual lived experience being assessed is called _____________, while the degree of flexibility in adapting methods during data collection is called ____________________.

A) fidelity, structure
B) structure, fidelity
C) redundancy, emergence
D) emergence, redundancy

Question 11

You should choose a qualitative design if which of the following conditions is met?

A) You want to assess causality
B) You want to generalize your results beyond your sample population
C) You want to report the occurrence of an objective measurable social behavior
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 12

The emergence of theory as a result of data analysis is called:

A) Grounded theory
B) Fidelity
C) Ethnography
D) Legitimization
E) Interpretive interactionalism

Question 13

A criteria for evaluation of qualitative research includes emotionality and caring, according to Denzin & Lincoln.

Question 14

Situated knowledge is research based on the experience of the writer.