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Week 11 Flashcards

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Positivism, usually associated with…

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objective scientific inquiry and quantitative research

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Interpretative paradigm, associated with…

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inquiry into subjective realities, and qualitative research.

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Critical paradigm, associated with…

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social inquiry, and also employing qualitative methodologies and methods.

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Alleged problems with quantitative methodology

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Reliance on objective reality

  • no subjective components
  • Humans separated by own reality (case and subject)
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Knowledge is socially constructed (according to ____ theory) biased through social and power structures

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critical

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_____ research: Explore aspects of life individually and experiences, reveals personal meaning, increases understanding and acceptance of human condition

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qualitative

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____ research: Purpose to explain in terms of underlying mechanisms, natural laws governing behaviour and phenomena

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Quantitative

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Is qualitative or quantitative research time and context dependent?

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Qualitative

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Does qualitative research have hypothesis?

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No, is exploratory

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Characteristics of qualitative methods

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  • Lots of information from small group (quantitative: specific, little information from large group)
  • Non-probability sampling, e.g. purposeful, theoretical or snowballing
  • No attempt to achieve representativeness to a population
  • Unstructured interviews
  • Context dependent knowledge
  • Close interactions between researchers and participants (no blinding)
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Interview methods of data collection

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  • Q&A format, not observational
  • two-way conversation
  • Requires skilled interviewer
  • Can generate large amount of data - time-consuming to analyse
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Structured interviews are best for _____ research

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quantitative

  • Sticks to main point
  • Asks everyone same questions
  • inflexible
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Unstructured or semi-structured are best for _____ research:

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qualitative

  • Questions may change during interview
  • Researcher invents new questions in response to their answers
  • Allows unexpected issues to be investigated in more detail
  • At worst can be rambling off topic
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Qualitative research interviews favour ____-ended questioning. While quantitive research favours __-ended questions (although can depend on style appropriate)

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open, closed

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Disadvantages of focus groups…

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  • Expensive (travel, room, catering)
  • Some people may be influenced by others
  • Facilitator bias
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When to use qualitative research?

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When quantitative is not possible or practical

- To look at issues that cannot be measured or counted
- Completely exploratory research - Identify possible cause and effects that researcher may later want to test using quantitative methodology
17
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Mixed methods research

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Combines quantitative and qualitative methods to obtain strengths of both

18
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Triangulation —>

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Comparing results from quantitative and qualitative
- If results for both methodologies are consistent, that suggest that findings are independent across methodologies, not biased by choice of methodology

19
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Convergent:

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Used for triangulation

- Seperate qualitative and quantitative studies done at same time
- Result compared
20
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Sequential:

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Qualitative done first to find important issues then investigate larger sample more scientifically with quantitative

21
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Multi-phase:

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Large study with separate quantitative and qualitative components

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Embedded:

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Quantitative and qualitative in the one data collection (E.g. student feedback surveys with ratings and open ended questions)

23
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Meta-analysis not relevant for qualitative research, so what do they use?

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meta-synthesis (summarises and interprets)

24
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Quantitative looks at ____

Qualitative looks at _____

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validity, rigour

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Claimed disadvantages of qualitative research

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  • Inability to generalise findings (examines small groups, not very relevant)
  • Produces theories but cannot test them - no hypothesis
  • No measurement of reliability or validity
  • Can’t scientifically examine cause and effect
  • Excessive attention to role of researcher rather than participant
  • Inability to quantify outcomes weakens arguments for policy change
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Thematic analysis is a method of analyzing qualitative data

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It is usually applied to a set of texts, such as an interview or transcripts. The researcher closely examines the data to identify common themes – topics, ideas and patterns of meaning that come up repeatedly

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