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Companion MCQ's: Analysing data

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RDA2 - Qualitative Quiz on Companion MCQ's: Analysing data , created by Róisín Farmer on 02/05/2017.
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Question 1

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When transcribing interview and focus group data, it’s important to:
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  • 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

Question 2

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To produce a ‘good enough’ transcript of an hour long interview it takes about:
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  • An hour
  • A day
  • Three days
  • A week

Question 3

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Errors in transcription:
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  • Are nothing to worry about
  • Are inevitable
  • Can change the meaning of the data
  • Can be avoided by using a transcription notation system

Question 4

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An orthographic transcript:
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  • 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

Question 5

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Transcription isn’t straightforward because:
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  • 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

Question 6

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Which of the following are examples of experiential qualitative approaches?
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  • 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

Question 7

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Which of the following are examples of critical qualitative approaches?
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  • Thematic analysis and conversation analysis
  • Thematic discourse analysis and discursive psychology
  • Grounded theory and interpretative phenomenological analysis
  • Interpretative phenomenological analysis and narrative analysis

Question 8

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‘What are the main experiential features of being angry?’ Which qualitative approach would be most appropriate to answer this research question?
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  • Grounded theory
  • Constructionist thematic analysis
  • Interpretative phenomenological analysis
  • Poststructuralist discourse analysis

Question 9

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‘This method of analysis aims to understand people’s lived experience and the meanings they attach to their experiences’. Is this a definition of?
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  • Interpretative phenomenological analysis
  • Discourse analysis
  • Narrative analysis
  • Grounded theory

Question 10

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Which method of analysis is concerned with the role of discourse in wider social processes of legitimation and power?
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  • Poststructuralist discourse analysis
  • Thematic analysis
  • Narrative analysis
  • Discursive psychology

Question 11

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Which approach to analysis focuses on how participants use language in order to manage stake in social interactions?
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  • Thematic analysis
  • Grounded theory
  • Narrative analysis
  • Discursive psychology

Question 12

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Which approach to analysis assumes that discursive constructions are implicated in the ways in which we experience ourselves?
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  • Grounded theory
  • Poststructuralist discourse analysis
  • Thematic discourse analysis
  • Interpretative phenomenological analysis

Question 13

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Which approach to analysis particularly favours homogeneous samples?
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  • Thematic analysis
  • Discourse analysis
  • Interpretative phenomenological analysis
  • Grounded theory

Question 14

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The use of descriptive, linguistic and conceptual codes is associated with which of the following approaches to qualitative analysis?
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  • Grounded theory
  • Thematic analysis
  • Discourse analysis
  • Interpretative phenomenological analysis

Question 15

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Which of the following approaches to qualitative analysis recommend immersion in the data as a first stage of analysis?
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  • Interpretative phenomenological analysis
  • Grounded theory
  • Thematic analysis
  • All of the above

Question 16

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Which qualitative approach is particularly associated with more detailed approaches to transcription?
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  • Thematic analysis
  • Discursive psychology
  • Grounded theory
  • Interpretative phenomenological analysis

Question 17

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Which qualitative method is concerned with the study of talk-in-interaction?
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  • Interviews
  • Thematic analysis
  • Interpretative phenomenological analysis
  • Conversation analysis

Question 18

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Conversation analysts value which of the following types of data?
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  • Secondary sources
  • Interviews
  • Ordinary social interactions
  • Focus groups

Question 19

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One of the distinctive features of thematic analysis is:
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  • 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

Question 20

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A good thematic analysis has:
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  • 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

Question 21

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When writing up your analysis you should:
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  • 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

Question 22

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Things to avoid when writing up your analysis include:
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  • 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

Question 23

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Good data extracts are:
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  • Short
  • Long
  • Vivid and compelling
  • Complex

Question 24

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Good themes:
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  • Overlap with other themes
  • Capture everything in the data
  • Are coherent
  • Are the ones that capture the most frequently articulated patterns in your data

Question 25

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The most important criterion for determining a theme is:
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  • 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

Question 26

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Which types of research questions can be addressed using both thematic analysis and IPA:
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  • Questions about experience
  • Questions about language practice
  • Questions about representation
  • Questions about construction

Question 27

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Constructionist thematic analysis is similar to:
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  • Interpretative phenomenological analysis
  • Conversation analysis
  • Narrative analysis
  • Thematic discourse analysis

Question 28

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In vivo codes in grounded theory are similar to:
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  • Linguistic comments in interpretative phenomenological analysis
  • Descriptive comments in interpretative phenomenological analysis
  • Latent codes in thematic analysis
  • Selective coding in discourse analysis

Question 29

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Advanced memos in grounded theory are used to:
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  • Explore initial codes
  • Direct further data collection
  • Develop and describe categories
  • Explore in vivo codes

Question 30

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Which of the following research questions are ideally suited to thematic analysis?
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  • Questions about experiences
  • Questions about perceptions and understandings
  • Questions about representation
  • All of the above
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