Lesson 10 - Thinking & Language Processes RIGOR

Question 1

What are the naturalistic design elements?

Answer 1

• purpose of research
• context of research
• pluralistic perspective of reality
• concern with transferability
• flexibility
• concern with language
• emic and etic perspectives
• interaction & analytical process

Question 2

What is the purpose of naturalistic design?

Answer 2

to develop descriptive knowledge of a phenomenon, evolve theories. Seeks to describe and understand or interpret daily life experience or structures within the context in which they occur.

Question 3

What is the structure of a naturalistic design?

Answer 3

It is exploratory and enables new insights and understandings to be revealed without the imposition of preconceived concepts.

Question 4

What does a naturalistic design assume?

Answer 4

Assumes a pleuralistic perspective of reality that characterizes complexity. (inductive reasoning)

Question 5

What is important about the transferability of findings?

Answer 5

1. specific to research
2. use methods and findings to generate theory & to reveal the unique meanings of human experience in human env’t
3. can compare and contrast contexts and their elements to gain new insights

Question 6

What is one important characteristics of naturalistic design?

Answer 6

It is flexible and fluid.
procedures and plans for deducting the study will change as the research progresses.

Is constantly reformulated and realigned to fit the emerging truths as they are discovered and obtained

Question 7

What is important about the language?

Answer 7

We must be accurate with translation in the analytical and reporting process. Everyone deconstructs language a little differently and when explaining the findings to general population must use pictures, symbols, words that they can understand. And to ensure that you have represented them correctly ask the subjects

Question 8

What is an Emic perspective?

Answer 8

refers to the insiders or informants way of understanding & interpreting experience. It reveals the voices of the individuals

• can start with this in a naturalistic design, phenomenology (lived experience)

Question 9

What is Etic Perspective?

Answer 9

Refers to the structural aspects or those that are external to a group. It assumes that those who do not experience a phenomenon can come to know it through structuring an investigation, selecting theoretical foundation that expands past that group and through that lens conducting the interpretation of data

Question 10

Why is it important to know where the investigator stands based on emic and etic

Answer 10

because it shapes:

• the overall design that is chosen
• specific data that are collected
• analytical process

Question 11

When does analysis occur

Answer 11

throughout data collection

Question 12

What is included in the analysis process?

Answer 12

Interactive, iterative and dynamic

Question 13

What is the classic criteria of MERIT

Answer 13

1. truth value -
2. Applicability -
3. Consistency
4. Neutrality

(apply to both types of research –> qualitative/quantitative) –see chart