Qualitative Research Methods

Question 1

What is qualitative research?

Answer 1

collection and analysis of text-based data

Question 2

What type of research focuses on the experience, construction and interpretation of reality?

Answer 2

qualitative

Question 3

Which is the most common method: convenience sample, purposive sample or theoretical sample?

Answer 3

purposive sample

Question 4

What is thematic analysis?

Answer 4

A method used to identify and analyse patterns across a text-based data set

Question 5

What is a theme?

Answer 5

A theme is a patterned response in your data set that has meaning in relation to the research question

Question 6

What are the two types of thematic analysis?

Answer 6

inductive and deductive

Question 7

Which type of thematic analysis uses the data to extract themes?

Answer 7

inductive

Question 8

Which type of thematic analysis uses the existing theory to guide extraction of themes?

Answer 8

deductive

Question 9

What are the 6 phases of thematic analysis?

Answer 9

1. Familiarising yourself with data
2. Generating initial codes
3. Searching for themes
4. Reviewing themes
5. Defining and naming themes
6. Producing the report