qualitative research consumer guide Flashcards
focus, advantages and disavantages of ethnography/fieldwork
focus:
- cultural organization and relationships
ADV
- cheap, rich description, developmental approach, ground level perspective
DIS
- relies on real time obs., hawthorne effect, subject loss over study time, hard to interpret all the data
focus, advantages and disavantages of study of documents
focus:
- evidence of care or process outcomes
ADV
- easy to obtain, can be compared across criteria, unobtrusive
DIS
- bulky, hard to transport, issues in accuracy and completeness, social context hard to reproduce
focus, advantages and disavantages of interview/survey
focus:
- attitudes and beleifs
ADV
- large numbers easy, generally cheap, results easy to quant, generalizable
DIS
- limited or fixed choice, little control over context, difficult to assess accuracy, potentially over simplify
focus, advantages and disadvantages of A/V records
focus:
- social interaction
ADV
- reproducible, cheap, detailed analysis of tiny events, many different dimensions, unobtrusive
DIS
- easily overwhelming data, time consuming, complex, can only see what camera sees
4 areas upon which is evaluate qual research
- research question
- context
- study design
- strategies and tech. to enhance rigor
criteria to evaluate research question
- clearly stated
- whether and how question emerged
- investigators perceptions and assumptions should be clearly stated
criteria to evaluate context
- clear description of study context
- clear descrition of investigators role in context
- delineation of how context affects the study design and ability to answer quesiton
criteria to evaluate research study design
- sampling strategy
- data collection methods
- data analysis methods
ways to enhance rogor
- audit trail
- reflective journal keeping
- search for disconfirming evidence
- test rival hypotheses
- peer review
- subject review
- triangulation
