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Companion MCQ's: Completing the process

Question 1 of 20

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Which three criteria are associated with the evaluation of qualitative research?

Select one of the following:

  • Reliability, validity and coherence

  • Coherence, resonating with readers and reliability

  • Situating the sample, reliability and grounding in examples

  • Coherence, resonating with readers and owning one’s perspective

Explanation

Question 2 of 20

1

Which are some of Lucy Yardley’s (2008) open-ended, flexible principles for judging the quality of qualitative analysis?

Select one of the following:

  • Sensitivity to context, validity and reliability

  • Sensitivity to context, commitment and rigour and transparency and coherence

  • Commitment and rigour, generalisability and transferability

  • Transferability, dependability and member checking

Explanation

Question 3 of 20

1

It is appropriate to use member checking as a credibility check when:

Select one of the following:

  • You have used discourse analysis to analyse your data

  • You are unsure if your analysis is correct

  • Your analysis aims to stay close to participants’ perspectives

  • You have produced a theoretical and conceptual interpretation of your data

Explanation

Question 4 of 20

1

You can ‘situate your sample’ by:

Select one of the following:

  • Disclosing identifying information about your participants

  • Describing what your participants were wearing during the interview

  • Providing a detailed summary of the demographic information you collected

  • Agreeing and disagreeing with your participants

Explanation

Question 5 of 20

1

In order to ‘ground in examples’ it is important to:

Select one of the following:

  • Discuss relevant literature

  • Support your analytic claims with illustrative data extracts

  • Provide an in-depth analysis of one, long data extract

  • Ensure there is a good fit between the data extracts and your analytic commentary

Explanation

Question 6 of 20

1

In a 10,000 word report, the introduction section should be about:

Select one of the following:

  • 5,000 words long

  • 2,500 words long

  • 4,000 words long

  • 1,000 words long

Explanation

Question 7 of 20

1

The purpose of a literature review in a qualitative research report is to:

Select one of the following:

  • Contextualise your research

  • Show how much you have read

  • Critique the methodological flaws of existing research and show how you will overcome them

  • Show how your study will relate to quantitative research

Explanation

Question 8 of 20

1

In the general discussion section of a qualitative report, it is always important to:

Select one of the following:

  • Introduce new material

  • Show how your research is better than quantitative research

  • Discuss the limitations of your sample

  • Evaluate the limitations of your research

Explanation

Question 9 of 20

1

Editing a draft of your report:

Select one of the following:

  • Is only important if you have used discourse analysis

  • Is only necessary to correct typos

  • Is an important part of good academic writing

  • Is only necessary when you are not happy with what you have written

Explanation

Question 10 of 20

1

One of the features of good qualitative poster design is:

Select one of the following:

  • Lots of text that tells the reader everything about the project

  • A font that can be read from 6-8 feet away

  • A really fancy font

  • A font that can be read from 2-4 feet away

Explanation

Question 11 of 20

1

A visually pleasing qualitative poster uses:

Select one of the following:

  • Lots of different colours

  • Lots of text

  • Lots of tables and figures

  • One or two background colours

Explanation

Question 12 of 20

1

Qualitative posters are easier to read when:

Select one of the following:

  • There is lighter text against a darker background

  • When text is presented in large blocks

  • There is darker text against a lighter background

  • When all the text is bullet pointed

Explanation

Question 13 of 20

1

Reliability is not a meaningful criteria for judging the quality of qualitative research because:

Select one of the following:

  • Qualitative research is biased

  • Qualitative research is unscientific

  • The findings of qualitative research will inevitably bear the mark of the researcher

  • Qualitative research has limited generalisability

Explanation

Question 14 of 20

1

One of the key quality criteria for discursive research is:

Select one of the following:

  • Member checking

  • Reader validation

  • Peer debriefing

  • Triangulation

Explanation

Question 15 of 20

1

Member checking assumes that:

Select one of the following:

  • Participants are the ultimate authority on their experience

  • Researchers are biased

  • Qualitative research is subjective

  • It’s difficult to produce good quality qualitative research

Explanation

Question 16 of 20

1

Providing a ‘thick description’ to enable another researcher to determine whether they can ‘safely’ transfer your findings to another context is Lincoln and Guba’s (1989) definition of:

Select one of the following:

  • Member checking

  • Credibility checking

  • Negative case analysis

  • Transferability

Explanation

Question 17 of 20

1

Elliot et al.’s (1999) guidelines for the publishability of qualitative research, include:

Select one of the following:

  • Respect of participants

  • Appropriate discussion

  • Owning one’s perspective

  • Appropriate methods

Explanation

Question 18 of 20

1

Credibility checks such as member checking are problematic in discourse analytic research because:

Select one of the following:

  • It takes too long

  • Participants will disagree with the findings

  • The analyst has the best insight into the data

  • The analysis does not aim to capture participants’ perspectives on their experiences

Explanation

Question 19 of 20

1

Some of the problems with member checking include:

Select one of the following:

  • Participants’ reluctance to disagree with the researcher’s interpretations

  • The difficulty of engaging participants in the process

  • Participants’ comments on the interpretations may be motivated by something other than helping the researcher best understand their experiences

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 20 of 20

1

When giving an oral presentation of qualitative research you should:

Select one of the following:

  • Include as much information as possible on your PowerPoint slides

  • Use PowerPoint selectively to highlight key points and show data extracts

  • Not include any data quotes

  • Only discuss one theme

Explanation