Methodologies Flashcards
What is experimental and quasi experimental research?
Experimental
You have a intervention and control group. The researcher manipulates the independent variable.
Quasi experimental
In the real world it is impossible to completely manipulate the independent variables. It is difficult to find intervention and control groups that are closely matched in terms of key varaibles.
What is survey research?
Method of data collection in which information is gathered from a sample or a population through the use of a questionnaire or an interview. Generalizability is important.
What is ethnographic research?
Observation of people and their cultures. Researchers immers themselves in the setting in order to gain a deep understanding.
What is phenomenological research?
Unstructured method of data collection. Inductive proces, allowing data to emerge. Big advantage therefore is that it is likely to pick up factors that were not part of the original research focus.
Producing thick descriptions of people’s experiences and perspectives in their natural settings. Contextual description and analysis are important.
Because it is unstructered it is often difficult to replicate. Often small case studies so generalizability is a concern.
What is Grounded Theory research/method?
Indcutive proces, theories develop from the data. Conceptual frameworks can be build based on patterns and themes identified in the data.
Iterative process. Researches look constantly throughout the process for what is needed to complete a theorie.
The grounded theory seeks for data saturation. The point to were no new information or concepts emerge from the data.
What is Heuristic inquiry?
The research question is usually focused on an issue that has posed a personal problem. It is hoped that the research will lead to self-discoveries, awareness and enhanced understanding.
It is autobiographical. It is richly desciptive, but strongly subjective and weak in terms of generalizability.
What is action research?
Researchers and practitioners collaborate closely and place an emphasis on changing things in organizations for example.
It can be highly structured and involve the use of experimental and control groups used to test a hypothesis
It can also be quite unstructured and used inductively (and qualitatively)
What is the discourse analysis?
A research method that studies language and examines how language is used in communcation. This involves written, spoken or visual texts, to understand the social, cultural and psychological aspects embedded in language.
It explores the larger patterns and structures of communication to uncover the meanings and ideologies that are conveyed
On micro level: examination of specific linguistic features such as the use of pronouns and metaphores
On macro level: looks at larger patterns and structures, including the overall organization of a text or the framing of an issue.
