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What is quantitative research?
______ research refers to counting and measuring items associated with the phenomenon in question.
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What is structured interviews?
An interview in which the interviewer asks pre-established open-ended questions of every respondent.
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What is true?
True or false: interviewing is the asking of questions by one individual of another to obtain information.
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What is a positivist paradigm?
Under what paradigm do researchers aim to identify the true causes of a phenomenon and evaluate the most effective interventions?
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What is grounded theory?
This approach aims to understand the processes of a phenomenon and build theory from data?
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What is qualitative research?
______ research involves examining a topic through a concept or a symbolic description of factors.
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What is semistructured interviews?
In this type of interview, the interviewer can go beyond the responses for a broader understanding of the answers (known as probing). It may consist of asking for more explanation of an answer or following-up with additional questions.
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What is false? (quantitative)
True or false: if the interview consists of specific questions for which designated responses may be chosen, this qualifies as qualitative research.
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What is an interpretivist/constructivist paradigm?
Under what paradigm do researchers aim to understand how what people do relates to how they make sense of the world around them?
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What is phenomenological research?
This approach looks to understand the underlying phenomenon of a population or participants.
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What is true?
True or false: qualitative research involves interpreting actions or meanings through a researcher's own words.
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What is a focus group?
The interviewing of several individuals in one setting is known as a ______ ______
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What is structured interviewing?
______ interview is geared toward limiting errors and ensuring a consistency of order in the responses even though the responses themselves may vary.
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What is axiology?
The study of the nature of values.
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What is: interviewing, focus groups, observations, field notes, memos, testimonios, looking at: website information, blogs, visual material, twitter feeds.
List 2 different qualitative research methods?
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What is false? (but also depends on the field...)
True or false: there is a demand for more qualitative research than quantitative research in recent years among scholarly journals.
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What is an ethnographic study?
Both an approach and a method in qualitative research, where the researcher enters the environment under study, examines the cultural and sociological structures for the context, but doesn't necessarily take part in any activities.
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What is compassion, asking the right questions, discernment, sensitivity?
What is an essential skill needed by the researcher in interviewing?
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What is method: the orderly procedure for conducting research; design; experiments, tests, surveys, interview questions. Methodology: logic behind the choices, system of methods; aims to find the right procedures to find solutions. Methodology links theories and paradigms to research questions and method.
What is the difference between methods and methodology?
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What is bracketing?
Researchers memo about their personal experiences in an attempt to set aside their bias and understand their own positionality in attempt to separate their identities from the research/research participants.
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What is takes too long, requires clear goals, can be BiAsEd, cannot be statistically organized, limitations for generalizability, problems with reliability and validity?
Identify 3 major complaints/limitations with qualitative research.
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What is theory?
Some researchers aim to build it, while others aim to test it. In most applied research (e.g. special education) it remains implied or hidden, but it is central to any research. What is it?
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What is advantages: limited expenses, flexibility, stimulation. Disadvantages: group culture, dominant responder, topic sensitivity.
Identify one advantage and one disadvantage of a focus group?
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What is a critical paradigm? (alt: what is critical research?)
Researchers using lenses of feminism, intersectionality, and critical race theories are mostly situated in what paradigm? (alternative: what is this research referred to?)
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What is reflexivity?
A researcher critically examines their research relative to background, bias, and assumptions is involved in what?
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