Week 9 Flashcards
What matters to qualitative researchers
Is my appraoch flexible and able to change?
Have i managed to capture the situation in a realistic manner?
Have i managed to see the world through the eyes of my participants?
Qualitative research including theory
Starts with specific examples, analyses to generate theory (inductive reasoning)
Quantitative research including theory
Starts with a theory, tests via specific examples to prove or disprove that theory (deductive reasoning)
How to build trustworthiness
Dependability, conformability, credibility, transferability
Depandability
Showing that the findings are consistent and could be repeated
Also known as reliability
Confirmability
A degree of neutrality of the extent to which the findings of a study are shaped by the respondents and not researcher bias, motivation, or interest.
Also known as objectivity
Credibility
Confidence in the truth of the findings
Also known as internal validity
Transferability
Showing that the findings have applicability in other contexts
Also known as external validity
Methodology (strategies of enquiry)
the strategy, plan of
action, the way that you group together your research
techniques to make the “Grand Design”
Methods
What you actually do, the techniques and
procedures you use to gather and analyze
data/evidence related to a specific research
question or hypothesis
Phenomonology
Exploring the experience of a group of people from different phenomena.
Idea is to come up with general themes.
Broad questions
Grounded theory
To inductively generate a grounded theory describing and explaining a phenomenon
not using pre conceived ideas
theory emerges strictly from the data
stages of grounded theory data analysis
Open coding, then axial coding, then selective coding
Ethnography
study of people in their own environment
What is the primary data collection method of phenomenology, ethnography and grounded theory?
P=In depth interviews
E=participant observation over an extended period
GT= Interviews and observations
