Researcher self-disclosure and the development of rapport with participants are issues particularly associated with which of the following qualitative methods?
Story completion tasks
Focus groups
Qualitative surveys
Interviews
Which of the following are examples of good interview questions?
Leading and open-ended questions
Open-ended and short questions
Multiple questions and leading questions
Vague and short questions
Which of the following qualitative methods reduces the power and control of the researcher?
People management is a particular consideration when using which of the following qualitative methods?
Which of the following are examples of ‘secondary sources’?
Interviews and diaries
Personal documents and story completion tasks
Diaries and surveys
Personal documents and the media
Qualitative surveys are particularly useful for?
Collecting individual views, opinions and experiences
Generating rich, detailed and ‘deep’ data
Generating unanticipated insights
Collecting data from small samples
One of the weaknesses of qualitative surveys is?
Limited flexibility
An emphasis on collecting individual views, opinions and experience
An emphasis on collecting data from small samples
They are less time-consuming than interviews
Which of the following qualitative methods is ideally suited to capturing routine and everyday processes?
Researcher-directed diaries
Surveys
Which of the following methods is more commonly used in quantitative research than qualitative research?
Semi-structured interviewing
Thematic analysis
Story-completion tasks
An important design feature of story completion tasks is?
Being meaningful to participants
Being realistic to participants
Being artificial to participants
Being directive to participants
Which of the following methods are particularly useful for accessing assumptions and ‘hidden’ meanings?
Conversation analysis
What are the major design issues in using secondary sources?
Meaningfulness to participants
Sample and rationale
Size of sample
Realism
What is the major motivation for using secondary sources?
A desire to understand culture
A desire to understand participants’ language and concepts
A desire to understand relationships between phenomenon
A desire to understand story structures
Virtual interviews can encourage participants to:
Disclose socially undesirable information
Multi-task during an interview
Demand payment for their participation
Both disclose socially undesirable information & multi-task during an interview
Interviews are ideally suited to which of the following types of qualitative research:
Research focused on people’s experience of the world
Interpretative Phenomenological research
Research focused on general views and opinions
Both research focused on people’s experience of the world & Interpretative Phenomenological research
Ideally how many interviews should you conduct in one day:
As many as you can
One
Three
Four
When interviewing someone you know, such as a close friend, it’s important to:
Pay them for their participation
Talk about what they said in the interview with mutual friends
Not pressure them to disclose sensitive information that you know is relevant to the interview
Debrief them fully after the interview
An ideal size for a focus group is about:
1-3 participants
10-15 participants
4-8 participants
6-12 participants
In a focus group discussion, participants should be encouraged to:
Talk to each other
Speak whenever they want
Talk only to the moderator
Talk loudly so the audio-recorder can pick up what they say
Focus groups are ideally suited to research questions about:
Individual experiences
People’s opinions and values
Highly emotive topics
None of the above
