Research Methods: Content/Thematic Analysis KR Flashcards

1
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What two ways do we use to analyse Qualitative data?

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Content and thematic analysis

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2
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What is qualitative data?

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Data that is expressed in words/ descriptive data

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3
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How is qualitative data analysed?

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through content and thematic analysis

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4
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Content analysis is similar to any observational study, however, how does the researcher usually make observations

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indirectly though books, films, ads, interviews and photos

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How does content analysis analyse qualitative data?

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it converts qualitative data to quantitative data

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How does content analysis convert qual data to quant data?

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it identifies meaningful codes then tallies everytime it appears

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After Tallying, how is the data displayed?

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on a graph/table

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8
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What is meant by a code?

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a code is just a category identified in the qual data

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9
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What is meant by coding?

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the process of placing qual data into meaningful categories

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10
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What are the four steps of content analysis?

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  1. Read/ view qual data
  2. create code
  3. reread and tally
  4. present data in a graph/table
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Which step is missing from content analysis?

  1. Read/ view qual data
  2. create code
  3. present data in a graph/table
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  1. reread and tally
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Which step is missing from content analysis?

  1. Read/ view qual data
  2. create code
  3. reread and tally
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  1. present data in a graph/table
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13
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Which step is missing from content analysis?

  1. create code
  2. reread and tally
  3. present data in a graph/table
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  1. read/view qual data
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14
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Which step is missing from content analysis?

  1. Read/ view qual data
  2. reread and tally
  3. present data in a graph/table
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  1. create a code
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15
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Where do the marks come from when discussing the process of content and thematic analysis?

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A02: you must provide examples

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16
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What is meant by Thematic analysis?

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a method of analysing qualitative date by identifying themes

17
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What is meant by a theme?

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a pattern within a set of qualitative data

18
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What themes might be present when analyzing a teenage girls diary?

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Love, friendship, hobbies, family etc.

19
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What themes might be present in a transcript of a football match?

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Goals, passes, defending, strike etc.

20
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How does thematic analysis present data?

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keeping the data qualitative

21
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How is thematic analysis different to content analysis?

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Thematic analysis keeps qualitative data qualitative where as content converts it to quantitative data.

22
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Summarise the process of thematic analysis into 4 points

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  1. read and reread the transcript
  2. identify codes
  3. combine codes into themes
  4. present the data in qualitative format
23
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Which part of the process in thematic analysis is missing?

  1. read and reread the transcript
  2. combine codes into themes
  3. present the data in qualitative format
A
  1. identifying codes
24
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Which part of the process in thematic analysis is missing?

  1. identify codes
  2. combine codes into themes
  3. present the data in qualitative format
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  1. read and reread the transcript
25
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Which part of the process in thematic analysis is missing?

  1. read and reread the transcript
  2. identify codes
  3. present the data in qualitative format
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  1. combine the codes into themes
26
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Which part of the process in thematic analysis is missing?

  1. read and reread the transcript
  2. identify codes
  3. combine codes into themes
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  1. present the data in a qualitative format
27
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A03: what is a strength of ways of analysing qualitative data?

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it is easy to assess the reliability using inter-rater reliability

28
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A03: why is it easy to assess the reliability on content and thematic analysis?

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as it uses codes which can be operationalised and other researchers can use them

29
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A03: What is a weakness of ways of analysing Qualitative data?

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research bias

30
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A03: why is thematic and content analysis open to researcher bias?

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the researcher has to identify the codes which means they interpret the data

31
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A03: Why is it a weakness that researchers have to interpret the data?

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They are aware of the hypothesis and therefore more likely to identify codes that support their hypothesis

32
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A03: if thematic and content analysis is subject to researcher bias, what type of validity is affected and why?

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internal: we are no longer measuring what we intend to.

33
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A03 what is a potential counter to researcher bias?

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Modern analysts are aware of their own bias and reference this in their report.