Final from Hell

Question 1

Deductive

Answer 1

moves towards a hypothesis testing after which the principle is confirmed

Question 2

Inductive

Answer 2

plans are made for data collection after which the data is analyzed, moves towards discovering a binding hypothesis

Question 3

ontology

Answer 3

study of being, nature of existence, what constitutes as reality

Question 4

epistemology

Answer 4

provides philosophical background for declined what kinds of knowledge are legitimate

Question 5

objectivism

Answer 5

reality exists independent of conciseness – objective reality

Question 6

positivism

Answer 6

reality exits external to researcher and must be investigated through rigorous process of inquiry

Question 7

constructivism

Answer 7

rejects the view of human knowledge truth and meaning do not exist in external world

Question 8

subjectivism

Answer 8

meaning does not emerge from interplay between the subject and outside worlds

Question 9

positivism

Answer 9

reality consists of what is available to the sense inquiry should be based upon scientific observation

Question 10

interpretivist

Answer 10

culturally derived and historically situated

Question 11

Descriptive

Answer 11

what is happening

Question 12

normative

Answer 12

what is happening compared to what should be

Question 13

correlative

Answer 13

what is the relationship strength between x and y

Question 14

impact

Answer 14

what impact does a change in x have on y

Question 15

types of validity

Answer 15

face, internal, external, criterion, construct,content,predictive,statistical

Question 16

principles of reliability

Answer 16

stability, equivalence, internal reliability, inter judge, intra judge

Question 17

Criticisms of qualitative data

Answer 17

can involve little or no contact with people or field settings, statistical correlations amy be based on variables that are arbitrarily defined, after the fact analysis, pursuit of measurable phenomena

Question 18

Benefits of Qualitative

Answer 18

can adopt various theoretical stances, can be powerful for analysis, highly contextual, can be used when little information available

Question 19

ethnography

Answer 19

describing participant observations

Question 20

phenomenology

Answer 20

reaction between perception objects is not passive, understand world from participants POV

Question 21

Grounded Theory

Answer 21

qualitative research is capable of generating theory, theories are not applied to the subject being studied

Question 22

Quantitative

Answer 22

objective, distant between subject, based on facts, deduction and confirmation, nomothetic

Question 23

Qualitative

Answer 23

constructivist, close between subjects, based on meaning, induction and emergence, ideographic, data based on text

Question 24

Benefits of Mixed Methods

Answer 24

combines several methods
combining methods can allow for other to fill in gap
complementary: combined to measure overlapping
development: result of one used to inform development of second, new perspectives and contradictions

Question 25

nominal

Answer 25

name value or category with no order or ranking

Question 26

ordinal

Answer 26

ordering or making values

Question 27

interval

Answer 27

equal intervals there is NO zero

Question 28

ratio

Answer 28

there is an absolute zero that represents some meaning