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3012 - Week 4 - Interviews and Focus Groups

Question 1 of 17

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In Qualitative research, Research methods are ways in which evidence is collected to:

Select one of the following:

  • Answer research questions

  • Confirm hypotheses

  • To rely on empirical evidence

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 2 of 17

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A Research Interview is:

Select one of the following:

  • 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.

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 3 of 17

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Which of the following is NOT a primary type of interview?

Select one of the following:

  • Structured

  • Semi-Structured

  • Unstructured

  • Semi-unstructured

Explanation

Question 4 of 17

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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?

Select one of the following:

  • Structured

  • Semi-structured

  • Unstructured

  • Semi-Unstructured

Explanation

Question 5 of 17

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Subjective account of human experience is when:

Select one of the following:

  • 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.

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Question 6 of 17

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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:

Select one of the following:

  • Pre-existing, Rigid and unchanging and Available for retrieval.

  • Used in historical contexts.

  • None of the above

  • Through an Online Interview.

Explanation

Question 7 of 17

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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?

Select one of the following:

  • Social interaction

  • Data excavation

  • Historical context

  • Unstructured Interviews

Explanation

Question 8 of 17

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What is the 'so what' factor referring to?

Select one of the following:

  • 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.

Explanation

Question 9 of 17

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When you get to the point where no further themes emerge is known as:

Select one of the following:

  • Theoretical saturation

  • Recruit sample

  • Method choice

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 10 of 17

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The trust and commitment to confidentiality an interviewer and interviewee form to agree with...

Select one of the following:

  • Interviewer Agreement Form

  • Interviewee Agreement Form

  • Interview Schedule

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 11 of 17

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What is the essence of "good" interviewing?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 12 of 17

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What are probes?

Select one of the following:

  • Minimal encouragers

  • Searching sub-questions

  • Going from the general to the particular

  • I see...go on

Explanation

Question 13 of 17

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Discussion-based interview that generates data from group interactions.

Select one of the following:

  • Interview

  • Focus groups

  • None of the above

  • Discussion interview

Explanation

Question 14 of 17

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Focus groups aims to:

Select one of the following:

  • Capture understandings, perspectives, stories, discourses and experiences

  • Meaningful expressed by numbers

  • All of the above

  • Collect numerical data

Explanation

Question 15 of 17

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There are two types of focus groups

Select one of the following:

  • Moderator guided and Self-moderated

  • Self-moderated and mentally aware

  • Self Awareness and Empirical

  • Structured and Unstructured

Explanation

Question 16 of 17

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Focus groups are useful for seeing:

Select one of the following:

  • Interactions between participants, Naturalistic forms of communication and Shared negotition of ideas.

  • Unnaturalistic forms of communication

  • Perspectives of over-represented groups

Explanation

Question 17 of 17

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Establishing rapport should:

Select one of the following:

  • 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

  • All of the above

  • Always have warm up exercises to increase the level of fitness of group which will increase the level of information received

Explanation

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