Chapter 14 Research.
The primary difference among qualitative research approaches is in the
particular social contexts examined and the participants selected.
Which of the following is of least concern to a qualitative researcher?
Generalizability, the goal of q research is to understand what is happening and why. Generalizing the answers is of far less concern.
Which of the following are steps in the qualitative research process
Identify a research topic, select a few participants, collect data using interviews and observations
Which of the following is a characteristic of a qualitative research study.
Involves the simultaneous collection of data on a number of variables, conducted over an extended period of time, and is conducted in a naturalistic setting.
Which of the following is a characteristic of qualitative research
Participants views are critically important, narrative data is collected, the focus is on individual personal interactions
Which of the following is intended to enhance design validity
Prolonged and persistent field work, peer debriefing, and member check
Which of the following characterizes qualitative research?
The collection and analysis of data, interpretation of narrative data, and gaining insight into a particular phenomena.
Which of the golfing describes the process of conducting qualitative research
a flexible emergent research design, unstructured designs that emerge over time.
In which qualitative research design is a teacher likely to be the researcher
action research
When a qualitative researcher takes into account all the complexities in the suds and addresses problems that are not easily explained she is enhancing
credibility
A qualitative research design seeking to describe and analyze all or part of the culture of a community is knows as
ethnography
The extent to which the researcher was sufficiently objective to report the data in an unbiased manner is
evaluative validity
which qualitative research design has as its purpose a conceptual analysis of the phenomena being studied
grounded theory
A qualitative research design in which data related to past events is systematically collected an evaluated to describe potential causes effects or trends related to those events is known as
historical.
Which of the following designed to enhance design validity
use mechanical recordings, multiple methods and practice triangulation.
Qualitative validity is viewed as
both trustworthiness and understanding
When a qualitative researcher addresses the neutrality and objectivity of the data he is enhancing
confrimability
Which of the following is a characteristic of qualitative research as well
data are analyzed inductively, researchers avoid making assumptions, and reports include the voices of the participants.
The facial accuracy of the account is
descriptive validity
To enhance understanding maxwell suggests addressing
descriptive, interpretive, and theoretical validity
The purpose of qualitative research is to
promote a deep, holistic understanding of a phenomenon of interest.
When a researcher is working to be sure there is consistency with that which is being measured, she is focusing on
reliability, this is a common layman's definition of reliability.
In qualitative research, researchers should be concerned with the reliability of the
techniques they use to gather data, it is important to reflect on whether the data would be consistent if different techniques were used to collect it.
How are steps for conducting quantitative research related to the steps for conducting quantitative research.
the steps re the same even though the methods are different, the process is the same.
The degree to which narrative data collected accurately gauges what the researcher is trying to measure is the definition of
validity