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

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Companion MCQ's: Collecting data

Question 1 of 20

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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?

Select one of the following:

  • Story completion tasks

  • Focus groups

  • Qualitative surveys

  • Interviews

Explanation

Question 2 of 20

1

Which of the following are examples of good interview questions?

Select one of the following:

  • Leading and open-ended questions

  • Open-ended and short questions

  • Multiple questions and leading questions

  • Vague and short questions

Explanation

Question 3 of 20

1

Which of the following qualitative methods reduces the power and control of the researcher?

Select one of the following:

  • Interviews

  • Qualitative surveys

  • Focus groups

  • Story completion tasks

Explanation

Question 4 of 20

1

People management is a particular consideration when using which of the following qualitative methods?

Select one of the following:

  • Qualitative surveys

  • Focus groups

  • Interviews

  • Story completion tasks

Explanation

Question 5 of 20

1

Which of the following are examples of ‘secondary sources’?

Select one of the following:

  • Interviews and diaries

  • Personal documents and story completion tasks

  • Diaries and surveys

  • Personal documents and the media

Explanation

Question 6 of 20

1

Qualitative surveys are particularly useful for?

Select one of the following:

  • Collecting individual views, opinions and experiences

  • Generating rich, detailed and ‘deep’ data

  • Generating unanticipated insights

  • Collecting data from small samples

Explanation

Question 7 of 20

1

One of the weaknesses of qualitative surveys is?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 8 of 20

1

Which of the following qualitative methods is ideally suited to capturing routine and everyday processes?

Select one of the following:

  • Interviews

  • Researcher-directed diaries

  • Story completion tasks

  • Surveys

Explanation

Question 9 of 20

1

Which of the following methods is more commonly used in quantitative research than qualitative research?

Select one of the following:

  • Semi-structured interviewing

  • Focus groups

  • Thematic analysis

  • Story-completion tasks

Explanation

Question 10 of 20

1

An important design feature of story completion tasks is?

Select one of the following:

  • Being meaningful to participants

  • Being realistic to participants

  • Being artificial to participants

  • Being directive to participants

Explanation

Question 11 of 20

1

Which of the following methods are particularly useful for accessing assumptions and ‘hidden’ meanings?

Select one of the following:

  • Qualitative surveys

  • Conversation analysis

  • Focus groups

  • Story-completion tasks

Explanation

Question 12 of 20

1

What are the major design issues in using secondary sources?

Select one of the following:

  • Meaningfulness to participants

  • Sample and rationale

  • Size of sample

  • Realism

Explanation

Question 13 of 20

1

What is the major motivation for using secondary sources?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 14 of 20

1

Virtual interviews can encourage participants to:

Select one of the following:

  • Disclose socially undesirable information

  • Multi-task during an interview

  • Demand payment for their participation

  • Both disclose socially undesirable information & multi-task during an interview

Explanation

Question 15 of 20

1

Interviews are ideally suited to which of the following types of qualitative research:

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 16 of 20

1

Ideally how many interviews should you conduct in one day:

Select one of the following:

  • As many as you can

  • One

  • Three

  • Four

Explanation

Question 17 of 20

1

When interviewing someone you know, such as a close friend, it’s important to:

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 18 of 20

1

An ideal size for a focus group is about:

Select one of the following:

  • 1-3 participants

  • 10-15 participants

  • 4-8 participants

  • 6-12 participants

Explanation

Question 19 of 20

1

In a focus group discussion, participants should be encouraged to:

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 20 of 20

1

Focus groups are ideally suited to research questions about:

Select one of the following:

  • Individual experiences

  • People’s opinions and values

  • Highly emotive topics

  • None of the above

Explanation

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