Question 1
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Researcher self-disclosure and the development of rapport with participants are issues particularly associated with which of the following qualitative methods?
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Story completion tasks
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Focus groups
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Qualitative surveys
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Interviews
Question 2
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Which of the following are examples of good interview questions?
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Leading and open-ended questions
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Open-ended and short questions
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Multiple questions and leading questions
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Vague and short questions
Question 3
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Which of the following qualitative methods reduces the power and control of the researcher?
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Interviews
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Qualitative surveys
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Focus groups
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Story completion tasks
Question 4
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People management is a particular consideration when using which of the following qualitative methods?
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Qualitative surveys
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Focus groups
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Interviews
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Story completion tasks
Question 5
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Which of the following are examples of ‘secondary sources’?
Question 6
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Qualitative surveys are particularly useful for?
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Collecting individual views, opinions and experiences
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Generating rich, detailed and ‘deep’ data
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Generating unanticipated insights
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Collecting data from small samples
Question 7
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One of the weaknesses of qualitative surveys is?
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Limited flexibility
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An emphasis on collecting individual views, opinions and experience
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An emphasis on collecting data from small samples
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They are less time-consuming than interviews
Question 8
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Which of the following qualitative methods is ideally suited to capturing routine and everyday processes?
Question 9
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Which of the following methods is more commonly used in quantitative research than qualitative research?
Question 10
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An important design feature of story completion tasks is?
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Being meaningful to participants
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Being realistic to participants
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Being artificial to participants
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Being directive to participants
Question 11
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Which of the following methods are particularly useful for accessing assumptions and ‘hidden’ meanings?
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Qualitative surveys
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Conversation analysis
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Focus groups
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Story-completion tasks
Question 12
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What are the major design issues in using secondary sources?
Question 13
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What is the major motivation for using secondary sources?
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A desire to understand culture
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A desire to understand participants’ language and concepts
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A desire to understand relationships between phenomenon
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A desire to understand story structures
Question 14
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Virtual interviews can encourage participants to:
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Disclose socially undesirable information
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Multi-task during an interview
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Demand payment for their participation
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Both disclose socially undesirable information & multi-task during an interview
Question 15
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Interviews are ideally suited to which of the following types of qualitative research:
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Research focused on people’s experience of the world
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Interpretative Phenomenological research
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Research focused on general views and opinions
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Both research focused on people’s experience of the world & Interpretative Phenomenological research
Question 16
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Ideally how many interviews should you conduct in one day:
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As many as you can
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One
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Three
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Four
Question 17
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When interviewing someone you know, such as a close friend, it’s important to:
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Pay them for their participation
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Talk about what they said in the interview with mutual friends
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Not pressure them to disclose sensitive information that you know is relevant to the interview
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Debrief them fully after the interview
Question 18
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An ideal size for a focus group is about:
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1-3 participants
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10-15 participants
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4-8 participants
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6-12 participants
Question 19
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In a focus group discussion, participants should be encouraged to:
Question 20
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Focus groups are ideally suited to research questions about: