Module 06

Question 1

What is a key distinguishing feature between quantitative and qualitative research?

Answer 1

Qualitative research aims at reducing the power differences. In Quantitative the research is the ultimate source of authority having specifically pre-specified all aspects of the study which are applied to the participants. Qualitative research promotes equal participation in the research process, recognizing knowledged is co-created

Question 2

Recall the characteristics “POEM” of qualitative research

Answer 2

Paradigm: Constructivist
Ontology: Relativist
Epistemology: Subjectivist
Methodology: Qualitative

Question 3

Recall what the constructivist paradigm is

Answer 3

Reality is believed to be constructed through meanings and understandings developed through social interactions and other experiences

Question 4

Recall what qualitative research methodology is

Answer 4

Concerned with the analysis of words and relies on naturalistic methods, allowing meanings to emerge from the research process.
Qualitative approaches are described as traditions rather than designs
Tradition MAY employ similar data collection and analysis methods but they are fundamentally different in their focus and the language they use

Question 5

What are the 4 traditions learned in Module 2?

Answer 5

• Case Study
• Ethnography
• Grounded Theory
• Phenomenology

Question 6

What is a case study?

Answer 6

In-depth analysis of people, events, and relationships bound together by some unifying factor.
Do not have to be individual-focused (could be how a program accomplishes its intended outcomes)
Rely on multiple sources of data to develop a comprehensive understanding

Question 7

What is ethnography?

Answer 7

Systematic study of the shared patterns of groups of people located in the same place or in frequent contact.
The ethnographer’s subject is the group or its culture. He/she observes society from the point of view of the group

Question 8

What is a grounded theory study?

Answer 8

Researcher goes back and forth between data collection and analysis such that interpretations are continually derived from raw data
Intent is to collect and analyze data to develop or generate an initial theory that informs the subsequent data collection and analysis
- Comparative process between findings and theory continues until the researcher reaches saturation - Point at which there are no new ideas and insights emerging from the data

Question 9

What is “saturation” in grounded theory?

Answer 9

Point at which there are no new ideas and insights emerging from the data