In Qualitative research, Research methods are ways in which evidence is collected to:
Answer research questions
Confirm hypotheses
To rely on empirical evidence
All of the above
A Research Interview is:
Practice of understanding other people by talking with them and listening to them.
Most common form of systematic social inquiry across the social sciences.
Generates verbatim data.
Which of the following is NOT a primary type of interview?
Structured
Semi-Structured
Unstructured
Semi-unstructured
What primary type of interview consists of the following advantages; Can compare responses, Data analysed relatively easily, no topics missed and respondents not constrained by fixed answers?
Semi-structured
Semi-Unstructured
Subjective account of human experience is when:
No assumption that all issues and ways of experiencing them are known in advance.
Yield data on common understandings, opinions, memories, attitudes, emotions/feelings.
Not concerned with 'fact finding' or obtaining verifiable accounts.
Acknowledges that human experience does not have diverse qualities and meanings.
Data excavation is a research interview seen as a way of accessing information that is resided in the participant's head. Implies information that is:
Pre-existing, Rigid and unchanging and Available for retrieval.
Used in historical contexts.
None of the above
Through an Online Interview.
Interviews are a way of formulating information NOT collecting data. There are two main issues: Co-constructed data and the What/How narrative. What type of data does this constitute?
Social interaction
Data excavation
Historical context
Unstructured Interviews
What is the 'so what' factor referring to?
Deciding on your research question.
Considering the best way to find out what it is you want to know.
Be able to offer clear rationale for choice.
All of the above.
When you get to the point where no further themes emerge is known as:
Theoretical saturation
Recruit sample
Method choice
The trust and commitment to confidentiality an interviewer and interviewee form to agree with...
Interviewer Agreement Form
Interviewee Agreement Form
Interview Schedule
What is the essence of "good" interviewing?
Use of appropriate language, aim for description, includes feeling or meaning making questions, uses open-ended questions.
Uses closed questions and directs the direction of the interview
Is confident, loud and directive
What are probes?
Minimal encouragers
Searching sub-questions
Going from the general to the particular
I see...go on
Discussion-based interview that generates data from group interactions.
Interview
Focus groups
Discussion interview
Focus groups aims to:
Capture understandings, perspectives, stories, discourses and experiences
Meaningful expressed by numbers
Collect numerical data
There are two types of focus groups
Moderator guided and Self-moderated
Self-moderated and mentally aware
Self Awareness and Empirical
Structured and Unstructured
Focus groups are useful for seeing:
Interactions between participants, Naturalistic forms of communication and Shared negotition of ideas.
Unnaturalistic forms of communication
Perspectives of over-represented groups
Establishing rapport should:
Discuss research aims, outline group rules, can use warm up exercises, allow an opportunity for debriefing and opportunity to withdraw data and ensure all participants have agreed and signed the Focus Group Agreement Form.
Should only focus on the researchers individual research aims
Always have warm up exercises to increase the level of fitness of group which will increase the level of information received
