Week 9

Question 1

Qualitative Research definition

Answer 1

The process of understanding based on distinct methodological traditions of inquiry that explore a social or human problem. The researcher builds a complex, holistic picture, analyses words, reports detailed views of informants, and conducts the study in a natural setting

Question 2

Qualitative Method

Answer 2

Qual starts with specific examples, analyzes to generate theory

Question 3

Quantitative Method

Answer 3

Quan starts with a theory, tests via specific examples to prove or disprove that theory

Question 4

Dependability

Answer 4

Showing that the findings are consistent and could be repeated (Reliability)

Question 5

Confirmability

Answer 5

A degree of neutrality or the extent to which the findings of a study are shaped by the respondents and not research bias, motivation, or interest. (Objectivity)

Question 6

Credibility

Answer 6

Confidence in the ‘truth’ of the findings. (Internal Validity)

Question 7

Transferability

Answer 7

Showing that the findings have applicability in other context. (External validity)

Question 8

Methodology

Answer 8

The strategy, plan of action, the way that you group together your research techniques to make the ‘grand design’

Question 9

Methods

Answer 9

What you actually do, the techniques and procedures you use to gather and analyze data/evidence related to a specific research question or hypothesis

Question 10

Qualitative Research Methods

Answer 10

Phenomenology
Ethnography
Grounded Theory

Question 11

Phenomenology

Answer 11

To describe one or more individuals’ experience of a phenomenon
In-depth interviews
Eg (Barriers of Dutch Individuals with Lower Limb Amputations)

Question 12

Ethnography

Answer 12

To describe the cultural characteristics of a group of people
Interviews with informants & Participant observations
Eg (Sport & Physical Activity in Spanish Prison)

Question 13

Grounded Theory

Answer 13

To inductively generate a grounded theory describing and explaining a phenomenon
Interviews & Observations
Eg (Expertise Batting in Cricket)

Question 14

Ways of Analysing Qualitative Data

Answer 14

7 ways in total:
Ethnographic analysis
Structured analysis
Content analysis
Axial coding and constant comparison
Inductive & deductive analytical procedures
Post-structuralism approach
Feminist approach

Question 15

Stages of Data Coding

Answer 15

1. Data is read carefully, statements are identified and assigned a code
2. Reread all the transcripts. Fit into categories.
3. Further codes be developed. Axial coding
4. Look more patterns & explanations

Question 16

Stages of Qualitative Analysis

Answer 16

Data reduction
Data display
Conclusion drawing