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Lecture 1 Flashcards

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3 components of research designs:

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  • philosophical world views
  • research approach
  • research methods
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3 research approaches:

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  • qualitative
  • quantitative
  • mixed methods
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The analogy made for quantitative vs qualitative:

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bread vs duck

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What are the keywords of qualitative research?

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  • exploring
  • understanding
  • subjective
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What are the defining features of qualitative research?

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  • non numerical data
  • themes
  • open ended interview questions
  • small sample sizes (duck)
  • emergent and flexible
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What are the keywords in quantitative research?

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  • testing

- objective

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What are the defining features of quantitative research?

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  • numerical data
  • closed ended survey questions
  • large sample size
  • bread (many participants)
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Give an example of the quantitative and qualitative sides of a mixed methods approach.

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  • topic: role of self compassion in athletes’ psychological well-being
  • quantitative: statistical relationships among measured variables
  • qualitative: athletes’ experiences of self compassion and psychological being
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What are the defining features of the mixed methods approach?

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  • can take many forms (can come simultaneously or staggered)
  • more comprehensive understanding of the research problem
  • requires expertise in both approaches
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Philosophical worldviews:

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  • a researcher’s set of beliefs and general orientation of the world, that guide his or her actions as they conduct research
  • dictates what a researcher believes is knowledge
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The term philosophical worldviews is often used interchangeably with:

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  • philosophical assumptions
  • research philosophy
  • research paradigms
  • ontological/epistemological assumptions
  • knowledge claims
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What are the 2 types of philosophical worldviews?

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  • ontology

- epistemology

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Ontology:

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  • what is it?
  • general orientation to the world
  • belief in the nature of truth and reality
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Epistemology?

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  • how do we get it?
  • nature of research
  • belief about how we acquire knowledge about truth and reality
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What are the 5 philosophical worldviews?

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  • postpositivism
  • constructivism
  • transformative
  • pragmatism
  • two-eyed seeing
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Postpositivism:

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  • single reality
  • single objective truth waiting to be discovered
  • scientific method
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Defining features of postpositivism:

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  • determinism (cause and effect)
  • reductionism (small, testable variables)
  • empirical observation and measurement
  • theory testing
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Constructivism:

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  • multiple realities exist

- meaning is varied

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Defining features of constructivism:

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  • understanding
  • multiple participant meanings (subjective)
  • social and historical construction
  • theory generation
  • subjective
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Transformative:

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  • research needs to be closely connected with politics
  • action agenda
  • advocate for marginalized people
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Defining features of transformative:

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  • political, advocacy
  • power and justice oriented
  • collaborative
  • change-oriented, reform
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Pragmatism:

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  • solutions to problems
  • no commitment to any specific notion of reality
  • real world problems
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Defining features of pragmatism:

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  • consequences of actions
  • problem centred
  • pluralistic (many approaches used)
  • real-world practice oriented
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Two eyed seeing

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  • many ways of understanding the world

- some views represented by indigenous knowledge, some by European-driven scienes

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Defining features of two-eyed seeing:

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  • brining together of knowledge from strengths of both worlds
  • equitable knowledge systems
  • respect, reflection, co-learning
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What is the main research approach for postpositivism?

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quantitative

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What is the main research approach for constructivism?

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qualitative

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What is the main research approach for pragmatism?

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mixed methods

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What is the main research approach for transformative?

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  • quantitative
  • qualitative
  • mixed methods
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What is the main research approach for two-eyed seeing?

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  • quantitative
  • qualitative
  • mixed methods
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Our worldviews are ______ and can _____.

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  • not static

- change over time

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