Research design Flashcards
1
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- studies a person, program, or event in a defined time frame
- the problem, the context, the issues, and the lessons learned
- Case Studies of drug-rehabilitated teenagers, transgenders, gay marriages, success stories
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Case study
2
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studies groups of people that share a common culture
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Ethnography
3
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- identifies specific characteristics of the content of human communication.
- examines choice and use of words from which concepts images are vividly derived.
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Content analysis
4
Q
search for the “central underlying meaning of the research participant’s experience”
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Phenomenological study
5
Q
- attempts to unravel the meanings of people’s interactions, social actions, and experiences.
- to build a theory that is faithful to the evidence
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Grounded theory
6
Q
- a systematic collection and evaluation of information which have occurred in the past
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Historical approach
7
Q
to investigate little-understood phenomena;
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Exploratory
8
Q
to explain the forces causing the phenomenon
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Explanatory
9
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to document the phenomenon of interest
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Descriptive
