When transcribing interview and focus group data, it’s important to:
Transcribe the data as soon as possible after the interview/focus group
Leave a gap between the interview/focus group and transcribing it
Clean up people’s speech
Only transcribe what seems relevant to the research question
To produce a ‘good enough’ transcript of an hour long interview it takes about:
An hour
A day
Three days
A week
Errors in transcription:
Are nothing to worry about
Are inevitable
Can change the meaning of the data
Can be avoided by using a transcription notation system
An orthographic transcript:
Is the correct form of transcription for discursive psychology
Captures how things are said as well as what is said
Captures spoken words and other sounds
Must include laughter and pauses
Transcription isn’t straightforward because:
It is boring
You have to choose how you translate from spoken to written speech
You must capture how things are said
It is time-consuming
Which of the following are examples of experiential qualitative approaches?
Thematic analysis, grounded theory and interpretative phenomenological analysis
Thematic analysis, discursive psychology and grounded theory
Discursive psychology, narrative analysis and conversation analysis
Conversation analysis, thematic analysis and grounded theory
Which of the following are examples of critical qualitative approaches?
Thematic analysis and conversation analysis
Thematic discourse analysis and discursive psychology
Grounded theory and interpretative phenomenological analysis
Interpretative phenomenological analysis and narrative analysis
‘What are the main experiential features of being angry?’ Which qualitative approach would be most appropriate to answer this research question?
Grounded theory
Constructionist thematic analysis
Interpretative phenomenological analysis
Poststructuralist discourse analysis
‘This method of analysis aims to understand people’s lived experience and the meanings they attach to their experiences’. Is this a definition of?
Discourse analysis
Narrative analysis
Which method of analysis is concerned with the role of discourse in wider social processes of legitimation and power?
Thematic analysis
Discursive psychology
Which approach to analysis focuses on how participants use language in order to manage stake in social interactions?
Which approach to analysis assumes that discursive constructions are implicated in the ways in which we experience ourselves?
Thematic discourse analysis
Which approach to analysis particularly favours homogeneous samples?
The use of descriptive, linguistic and conceptual codes is associated with which of the following approaches to qualitative analysis?
Which of the following approaches to qualitative analysis recommend immersion in the data as a first stage of analysis?
All of the above
Which qualitative approach is particularly associated with more detailed approaches to transcription?
Which qualitative method is concerned with the study of talk-in-interaction?
Interviews
Conversation analysis
Conversation analysts value which of the following types of data?
Secondary sources
Ordinary social interactions
Focus groups
One of the distinctive features of thematic analysis is:
It’s theoretical flexibility
It’s objectivity
The fact that you don’t have to transcribe interviews before you code and analyse them
The use of line-by-line coding
A good thematic analysis has:
Lots of themes
Lots of descriptive codes
A set of themes that work together to tell a story about the data
More generalisability than interpretative phenomenological analysis
When writing up your analysis you should:
Keep data extracts to an absolute minimum
Have more data extracts than analytic commentary
Have roughly equal proportions of data extracts and analytic commentary
Repeat key data quotes throughout the analysis
Things to avoid when writing up your analysis include:
Paraphrasing the data
Having lots of thin themes
Retaining the complexity and contradiction in the data
Both paraphrasing the data & having lots of thin themes
Good data extracts are:
Short
Long
Vivid and compelling
Complex
Good themes:
Overlap with other themes
Capture everything in the data
Are coherent
Are the ones that capture the most frequently articulated patterns in your data
The most important criterion for determining a theme is:
The frequency with which it appears in the data
The degree to which is captures something important in your data relevant to your research question
Whether it appears in most of your data items
How obvious it is in the data
Which types of research questions can be addressed using both thematic analysis and IPA:
Questions about experience
Questions about language practice
Questions about representation
Questions about construction
Constructionist thematic analysis is similar to:
In vivo codes in grounded theory are similar to:
Linguistic comments in interpretative phenomenological analysis
Descriptive comments in interpretative phenomenological analysis
Latent codes in thematic analysis
Selective coding in discourse analysis
Advanced memos in grounded theory are used to:
Explore initial codes
Direct further data collection
Develop and describe categories
Explore in vivo codes
Which of the following research questions are ideally suited to thematic analysis?
Questions about experiences
Questions about perceptions and understandings
