Qualitatuve Approach Flashcards
How does a survey differ when studying a quantitative or qualitative research
Quantitative- specific questions with specific answers
Only what is asked by the researcher is examined and studying
Qualitative doesn’t just rely on results but proffers deeper thought or approach to data that the researcher may not have given much thought to
What are the steps required in qualitative interviews
Interview schedule- the question to be asked during conversation
Sample and conduct- who specifically in the population would you want to question, conduct- recording results because that’s the information to be analyzed
Transcribe interviews- relisten and rewrite inductively or deductively
Analyze transcript-meaning of results
What does it mean that research in qualitative results in saturation not generalizable
The conclusion of wheather the researcher has enough information is not based of how many people in the sample can that topic being examined apply to everyone in the population.
The end depends on how repetitive the results become, after interviewing 65 people similarity in the stories would be indicated, at that point the research can,make a personal educated guess to proceed or not
How is saturation qualitative
Depends on the researcher, when they determine that further research would yield no useful results
What does an inductive approach to qualitative coding involve
The researcher does the interview, ask the questions and during analysis that involve transcription, she listens and finds similar themes, from there decides that that’s what she would use as major themes to answer that research question
For example, i transcribe the effects of pregnancy on disabled mothers—> during analysis i see that most of the women fear the impact it may have on them psychologically if they lose their baby, a prospect that I the research didn’t think of and now that continuous theme can be an example of a code i decide to include as i story to answer my research question
Whether an inductive or deductive approach is used to code depends on what
The research question
Does inductive or deductive proffer a explanatory route to coding?
Inductive
What research methodology is interpretive prose and what does it mean
To be interpretive prose means to be a type of research in which the data collection and analysis is based on interaction with the participant
How does research interviews relate to salient features
That means while having a conversation, the researcher may come across a different approach to the study that provides a better understanding of the research question. That the researcher didn’t come up or think of earlier
What is the first step in the qualitative analysis of interviews
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What is coding/ codes in a qualitative research
Coding is the process of analyzing the transcribed information from interview
While codes are the (key ideas) patterns, salient themes the researcher notices and decides too study or use to answer the research question
How does exploratory research come from an inductive approach
Exploitation of the data to find themes
The research find does codes
Uses them to answer the research questions
The themes identified and explored provides the avenue to understand and the research question
what does Neale 1998 illustrate with his research on the impact of drug service providers to drug users
Neale used a deductive approach to his research, he was \interested in the relationship between service workers and the drug users.
And he used a deductive approach in that the themes he explored were already decided by him pre research
An inductive approach would mean studying the effects of drugs on family and life of drug users
How does deductive coding differ from quantitative
A deductive approach offers a deeper revelation and look into the feelings of the participant that cannot be gotten from answering the yes or no question from taking a survey.
Even though the specific topic and theme is already defined and asked by the researcher it still allows the personal feelings to be included in the research
Also with quantitative the researcher would have to come up with those questions to be asked, and the researcher does not a whole aspect of the study may be ignored.
While a qualitative approach proffers the ease, that the researcher can find these key aspects naturally through conversations without thinking about it themselves
What advantage of qualitative research did home care fault lines illustrate
It showed that qualitative can be used to study in a broad manner
