qualitative sampling, data collection and analysis, and rigour Flashcards
triangulation
the expansion of research strategies in a single study or multiple studies to:
- enhance diversity
- enrich understanding
- accomplish certain goals
data triangulation
a variety of data sources
investigator triangulation
use of different researchers with divergent backgrounds
theory triangulation
use of multiple perspectives during data interpretation
methodological triangulation
multi-methods used to study a single topic
interdisciplinary triangulation
use more than one discipline to study the topic
data reduction
- ongoing process as data is collected
- process of selecting, focusing, sampling, abstracting and transforming the data
- organized into meaningful clusters
thematic analysis
process of recognizing and recovering the emergent themes
data display
an organized, compressed assembly of information that permits conclusion drawing and action
- graphs, flow charts, matrixes, model
conclusion drawing
the description of the relationship between the themes
verification
occurs as the data is collected
phenomenological analysis
- immersion in the data
- extract significant statements
- determine relationship among themes
- describe phenomena and themes
- synthesize themes into a consistent description of phenomenon
ethnographic analysis
- immersion in the data
- identify patterns and themes
- take cultural inventory
- interpret findings
- compare findings to the literature
grounded theory analysis
- examine each line of data line by line
- divide data into discrete parts
- compare data for similarities/differences
- compare data with other data collected, continuously - constant comparative method
- cluster into categories
- develop categories
- determine relationships among categories
case study analysis
- identify unit of analysis
- code continuously as data is collected
- find commonalities, themes
- analyze field notes
- review and identify patterns and connections
