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