Research Flashcards
Quality qualitative research does what?
provides important information outside scope of quantitative methods, including greater depth and specificity of participants’ behaviors, thoughts, feelings and experiences (Waalkes et al., 2021)
Qualitative research can empower individuals to do what?
share stories, help silenced voices be heard and develop theories (Waalkes et al., 2021)
Commonalities of qualitative research
occurs in natural settings, collects data through aural, visual or textual artifacts, includes participants’ input into findings and describes phenomenons as experienced by groups or individuals (Burkholder et al., 2020)
Qualitative research methods
an umbrella term for a heterogeneous group of methodologies that begin with relatively one or more broad research questions and research is carried out to narrow the research aim or purpose and focus on answering why and how (Denny & Weckesser, 2022; Kuper et al., 2008)
Qualitative researchers do what?
uses qualitative approach to inquiry, collect data in natural settings with considerations of people/places in study, analyze data both inductively and deductively to identify patterns or themes (Burkholder et al., 2020)
Qualitative researchers need to do what?
need to identify their own contexts so that they understand how their own views and beliefs may influence interactions they have with their participants (Kuper et al., 2008)
What do qualitative researchers study?
study things in their natural settings, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of meanings and data is gathered from interviews, focus groups, observations or documents and other written artifacts (Burkholder et al., 2020; Kuper et al., 2008)
Role of researcher in qualitative study
primary instrument of data collection brings you into an intimate relationship with your setting, your participants and your data analysis, yielding a duality to presence in a study as both a participant and an observer in varying degrees ranging from complete participant to complete observer (Burkholder et al., 2020)
Qualitative studies should do what?
carefully describe methods used in collecting data and include clear description of systematic form of data analysis (Kuper et al., 2008)
Qualitative studies use what kind of sampling?
use nonprobability sampling (purposive sampling) to identify those who can provide data for the study (Burkholder et al., 2020)
Semi-structured interviews
contain pre-set, open-ended questions with further questions emerging from the discussion (Denny & Weckesser, 2022)
Central aim of ethnography
to provide rich, holistic insights into people’s views and actions, as well as the nature of the location they inhabit, through the collection of detailed observations and interviews (Reeves et al., 2008)
Ethnography
study of social interactions, behaviors, and perceptions that occur within groups, teams, organizations and communities (Reeves et al., 2008)
Focus groups
group disucssions facilitated by a researcher who will have guidelines to focus the groups (Denny & Weckesser, 2022)
Interviews and focus groups have what in common?
Both interviews and focus groups tend to be flexible and non-standardized, with greater interest in the participants’ perspectives and experience than for quantitative research (Denny & Weckesser, 2022)
Observation
the act of watching social phenomena in real-world settings, recording what people do, rather than what they profess to do (Denny & Weckesser, 2022)
Case study
Case study: paint comprehensive picture of a bounded unit around some phenomenon (Burkholder et al., 2020)
Phenomenology
Phenomenological studies seek to understand the experiences of a set of individuals who share a common experience; purpose is to describe lived experiences of individuals in relation to an identified phenomenon (Burkholder et al., 2020)
Narrative
Purpose of narrative research is to tell stories; other terms for these stories of experience are biography, life history, oral history, autoethnography and autobiography; seeks to understand meaning of individual experiences in relation to a phenomenon (Burkholder et al., 2020)
Grounded Theory
primary purpose of all qualitative research is to describe phenomena that occur in the world, leading to complex understandings that can build toward theories (Burkholder et al., 2020)
Reliability
instruments used to collect data produce consistent results across data collection occurrences (Burkholder et al., 2020)
Dependability
there is evidence of consistency in data collection, analysis and reporting (Burkholder et al., 2020)
Credibility
findings of the study are beliveable given the data presented; established using strategies using such as prolonged engagement, persistent observation, peer debriefing, negative case analysis, progressive subjectivity, member checking, triangulation, and reflexivity (Burkholder et al., 2020)
External validity
provides a measure of extent to which the findings of study, based on sample, are generalizable to population of interest for the study (Burkholder et al., 2020)
Confirmability
requires that other informed researchers would arrive at essentially the same conclusions when examining the same qualitative data (Burkholder et al., 2020)
Prolonged Engagement
requires presence and involvement at study site for extended period of time; three purposes for prolonged engagement: to build rapport and trust, to derive enough information to mitigate misunderstandings and to understand more deeply the context and culture of study environment (Burkholder et al., 2020)