Evaluation etc Flashcards
Which three criteria are associated with the evaluation of qualitative research?
a. ) Reliability, validity and coherence
b. ) Coherence, resonating with readers and reliability
c. ) Situating the sample, reliability and grounding in examples
d. ) Coherence, resonating with readers and owning one’s perspective
d.) Coherence, resonating with readers and owning one’s perspective
It is appropriate to use member checking as a credibility check when:
a. ) You have used discourse analysis to analyse your data
b. ) You are unsure if your analysis is correct
c. ) Your analysis aims to stay close to participants’ perspectives
d. ) You have produced a theoretical and conceptual interpretation of your data
c.) Your analysis aims to stay close to participants’ perspectives
You can ‘situate your sample’ by:
a. ) Disclosing identifying information about your participants
b. ) Describing what your participants were wearing during the interview
c. ) Providing a detailed summary of the demographic information you collected
d. ) Agreeing and disagreeing with your participants
c.) Providing a detailed summary of the demographic information you collected
In order to ‘ground in examples’ it is important to:
a. ) Discuss relevant literature
b. ) Support your analytic claims with illustrative data extracts
c. ) Provide an in-depth analysis of one, long data extract
d. ) Ensure there is a good fit between the data extracts and your analytic commentary
b.) Support your analytic claims with illustrative data extracts
In a 10,000 word report, the introduction section should be about:
a. ) 5,000 words long
b. ) 2,500 words long
c. ) 4,000 words long
d. ) 1,000 words long
b.) 2,500 words long (1/4)
One of the features of good qualitative poster design is:
a. ) Lots of text that tells the reader everything about the project
b. ) A font that can be read from 6-8 feet away
c. ) A really fancy font
d. ) A font that can be read from 2-4 feet away
d.) A font that can be read from 2-4 feet away
One of the key quality criteria for discursive research is:
a. ) Member checking
b. ) Reader validation
c. ) Peer debriefing
d. ) Triangulation
b.) Reader validation
Member checking assumes that:
a. ) Participants are the ultimate authority on their experience
b. ) Researchers are biased
c. ) Qualitative research is subjective
d. ) It’s difficult to produce good quality qualitative research
a.) Participants are the ultimate authority on their experience
Providing a ‘thick description’ to enable another researcher to determine whether they can ‘safely’ transfer your findings to another context is Lincoln and Guba’s (1989) definition of:
a. ) Member checking
b. ) Credibility checking
c. ) Negative case analysis
d. ) Transferability
d.) Transferability
Credibility checks such as member checking are problematic in discourse analytic research because:
a. ) It takes too long
b. ) Participants will disagree with the findings
c. ) The analyst has the best insight into the data
d. ) The analysis does not aim to capture participants’ perspectives on their experiences
d.) The analysis does not aim to capture participants’ perspectives on their experiences
Some of the problems with member checking include:
a. ) Participants’ reluctance to disagree with the researcher’s interpretations
b. ) The difficulty of engaging participants in the process
c. ) Participants’ comments on the interpretations may be motivated by something other than helping the researcher best understand their experiences
d. ) All of the above
d.) All of the above:
- The difficulty of engaging participants in the process
- Ps reluctance to disagree with the researcher
- Participants’ comments on the interpretations may be motivated by something other than helping the researcher best understand their experiences
Interviews are better used to examine people’s _ whereas story completion tasks examine people’s _
experiences, assumptions
