Research Methods

Question 1

Action Research

Answer 1

Emphasizes the researcher’s adoption of an action role or an active collaboration with study participants

Question 2

Case Study

Answer 2

Studies a phenomenon (the “case”) in its real-world context

Question 3

Ethnography

Answer 3

Involves a field-based study lengthy enough to surface people’s everyday norms, rituals, and routines in detail

Question 4

Enthomethodology

Answer 4

Seeks to understand how people learn and know the social rituals, mannerisms, and symbols in their everyday life and culture

Question 5

Feminist Research

Answer 5

Embraces the perspective that methodological and other relationships embed oft-ignored power relations that can affect research findings

Question 6

Grounded Theory

Answer 6

Assumes that the natural occurrence of social behaviour within real-world contexts is best analysed by deriving “bottom-up” grounded categories and concepts; asks questions about a range of psychological processes. Asks about what is happening as well as how and why

Question 7

Life History

Answer 7

Collects and narrates a person’s life story, capturing its turning points and important themes

Question 8

Narrative Inquiry

Answer 8

Constructs a narrative rendition of the findings from a real-world setting and participants, to accentuate a sense of “being there”

Question 9

Participant-Observer Study

Answer 9

Conducts field-based research based on the researcher locating in the real-world setting being studied

Question 10

Phenomenological Study

Answer 10

Studies human events as they are immediately experienced in real-world settings, resisting prior categories and concepts that might distort the experiential basis for understanding events

Question 11

Discourse analysis

Answer 11

Asks questions about how language is used. It investigates what is said as well as why it might be said

Question 12

Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA)

Answer 12

Asks questions about how individuals make sense of their world; It seeks insight to the meanings that events and experiences hold for people

Question 13

Narrative Analysis

Answer 13

Asks questions about how individuals make meaning using stories; seeks understanding of the unique perspective brought by individuals to make sense of their external and internal worlds

Question 14

Parts of a Thesis

Answer 14

Chapter 1: Introduction, Conceptual/Theoretical Framework, Statement of the problem; Significance of the Study; Scope and Limitations; Ethical Considerations; Definition of terms
Chapter 2: RRL
Chapter 3: Methodology, Research Design, Locale of the Study, Unit of Analysis, Sampling Procedure, Instrument, Data Gathering Procedures, Statistical Treatment of Data
Chapter 4: Results and Discussion
Chapter 5: Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations
Summary of findings; Conclusion, Recommendation