Qualitative and Extras

Question 1

Qualitative Research Types

Answer 1

Case Study: example phenonmenon (DPT class of 2026)
Grounded Theory: developed from previous data (why are we burnt out)
Phenomenology: describes experience of humans (exploring lived exeriences of PT students)
Ethnography: sociology through observation (pt cohort)
Historical: past occurrences and trying to explain current events

Question 2

Qualitative Research Methods

Answer 2

Interview
Focus group
Participant observation
Artifacts (journals and documents)

Question 3

Qualitative Research Reliability

Answer 3

-Multiple viewing of tapes by same or multiple

-Kappa Statistic of inter-rater reliability

Question 4

Qualitative Research Credibility

Answer 4

-establishing you are credible from the participant in the research
-only participants can judge

Question 5

Qualitative Research Trustworthiness

Answer 5

Truth Value:
Qual-credibility
Quan- Internal validity

Applicability:
Qual-Transferability
Quan-External validity

Consistency:
Qual- Dependability
Quan-Reliability

Neutrality:
Qual- Confirmability
Quan-Objectivity

Question 6

Qualitative Research Transferability

Answer 6

-degree to which the results can be generalized
-increase by describing context and assumptions
- aka external validity

Question 7

Qualitative Research Dependability

Answer 7

-need to account for ever changing context of research
-must describe changes
-validity

Question 8

Qualitative Research Comfirmability

Answer 8

-degree in which the results could be confirmed or corroborated

Question 9

Qualitative Research Maintaining Validity

Answer 9

-listen
-record acurrately
-include primary data and all in report
-be candid
-seek feeddback
-balance

Question 10

Reference Software

Answer 10

Refworks: store research articles

Question 11

H-Index

Answer 11

-Hetsch index
-attempts to measure pproductivitty and citation impact of a scholar
-higher the better
-amount of citations

Question 12

Impact Factors

Answer 12

-average number of times articles from the journal published within 2 years that are cited in a year

Question 13

Predatory Publishers

Answer 13

-Beall’s List

Question 14

Kappa (K)

Answer 14

-non parametric test of association for inter-rater agreement
-need nominal data
-was agreement by chance?
-tested for significance
-1 is perfect, 0 is by chance

K= (observed-chance)/
(1-chance)

Question 15

Chi Square

Answer 15

-nominal data
-proportion or relationships
-2 variables to determine if they are independentt from one another

Question 16

Exploratory Factor Analysis

Answer 16

-used on outcome measures (questionnaires)
-determine the numnber of contructs in the tool by finding correlations
-internal consistency

ex: which toys go in what box