WEEK 4 - QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Flashcards
concerned with exploring and explaining human experiences and the meanings ascribed to those experiences – subjective experienceWhat is qualitative research?
What distinguishes qualitative from quantitative research?
What are the different qualitative methodologies?
- Grounded theory
- Case Studies
- Sem-structured interview
- Phenomenology
- Ethnography (passive observation)
How will you evaluate papers that describe qualitative research?
- CASP Qualitative Checklist
Semi structured interview
Face to face, telephone with the purpose of exploring issues or topics in detail.
Grounded theory
This approach starts with no preconceptions and develops themes and idea as the data collected and analysed.
Phenomenology
Focusing on peoples lived experiences and how they interpret those experiences. You being to explore the phenomena of the situation a persons perceptional perspectives and understanding of an event,
Case studies
used look at individuals, small group of participants or a group as a whole. Begins with a clear definition of the case being researched and the researcher explores the people, behaviours based on the defined question of the research.
Sampling
Sampling is the process of selecting participants for a study
Risk of bias
Purposive Sampling
- Participants targeted who can provide in-depth information about the topic of study e.g first-time parents’ experiences of bottle-feeding their infants.
Snowball Sampling
- Participant who meets the criteria for inclusion in the study recommends others they know who also meet the criteria.
Convenience Sampling
- Participants are chosen because of their convenience e.g located nearby the researchers.
What are the main 4 categories for data collection in qualitative research
- Interviews
- Observations
- Documents
- Audio/Visual materials
Why and how quantitative research is done
- test ideas, to see whether what should work really does work
- revel scientific principles and laws of nature
