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Companion MCQ's: Analysing data

Question 1 of 30

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

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 2 of 30

1

To produce a ‘good enough’ transcript of an hour long interview it takes about:

Select one of the following:

  • An hour

  • A day

  • Three days

  • A week

Explanation

Question 3 of 30

1

Errors in transcription:

Select one of the following:

  • Are nothing to worry about

  • Are inevitable

  • Can change the meaning of the data

  • Can be avoided by using a transcription notation system

Explanation

Question 4 of 30

1

An orthographic transcript:

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 5 of 30

1

Transcription isn’t straightforward because:

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 6 of 30

1

Which of the following are examples of experiential qualitative approaches?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 7 of 30

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Which of the following are examples of critical qualitative approaches?

Select one of the following:

  • Thematic analysis and conversation analysis

  • Thematic discourse analysis and discursive psychology

  • Grounded theory and interpretative phenomenological analysis

  • Interpretative phenomenological analysis and narrative analysis

Explanation

Question 8 of 30

1

‘What are the main experiential features of being angry?’ Which qualitative approach would be most appropriate to answer this research question?

Select one of the following:

  • Grounded theory

  • Constructionist thematic analysis

  • Interpretative phenomenological analysis

  • Poststructuralist discourse analysis

Explanation

Question 9 of 30

1

‘This method of analysis aims to understand people’s lived experience and the meanings they attach to their experiences’. Is this a definition of?

Select one of the following:

  • Interpretative phenomenological analysis

  • Discourse analysis

  • Narrative analysis

  • Grounded theory

Explanation

Question 10 of 30

1

Which method of analysis is concerned with the role of discourse in wider social processes of legitimation and power?

Select one of the following:

  • Poststructuralist discourse analysis

  • Thematic analysis

  • Narrative analysis

  • Discursive psychology

Explanation

Question 11 of 30

1

Which approach to analysis focuses on how participants use language in order to manage stake in social interactions?

Select one of the following:

  • Thematic analysis

  • Grounded theory

  • Narrative analysis

  • Discursive psychology

Explanation

Question 12 of 30

1

Which approach to analysis assumes that discursive constructions are implicated in the ways in which we experience ourselves?

Select one of the following:

  • Grounded theory

  • Poststructuralist discourse analysis

  • Thematic discourse analysis

  • Interpretative phenomenological analysis

Explanation

Question 13 of 30

1

Which approach to analysis particularly favours homogeneous samples?

Select one of the following:

  • Thematic analysis

  • Discourse analysis

  • Interpretative phenomenological analysis

  • Grounded theory

Explanation

Question 14 of 30

1

The use of descriptive, linguistic and conceptual codes is associated with which of the following approaches to qualitative analysis?

Select one of the following:

  • Grounded theory

  • Thematic analysis

  • Discourse analysis

  • Interpretative phenomenological analysis

Explanation

Question 15 of 30

1

Which of the following approaches to qualitative analysis recommend immersion in the data as a first stage of analysis?

Select one of the following:

  • Interpretative phenomenological analysis

  • Grounded theory

  • Thematic analysis

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 16 of 30

1

Which qualitative approach is particularly associated with more detailed approaches to transcription?

Select one of the following:

  • Thematic analysis

  • Discursive psychology

  • Grounded theory

  • Interpretative phenomenological analysis

Explanation

Question 17 of 30

1

Which qualitative method is concerned with the study of talk-in-interaction?

Select one of the following:

  • Interviews

  • Thematic analysis

  • Interpretative phenomenological analysis

  • Conversation analysis

Explanation

Question 18 of 30

1

Conversation analysts value which of the following types of data?

Select one of the following:

  • Secondary sources

  • Interviews

  • Ordinary social interactions

  • Focus groups

Explanation

Question 19 of 30

1

One of the distinctive features of thematic analysis is:

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 20 of 30

1

A good thematic analysis has:

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 21 of 30

1

When writing up your analysis you should:

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 22 of 30

1

Things to avoid when writing up your analysis include:

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 23 of 30

1

Good data extracts are:

Select one of the following:

  • Short

  • Long

  • Vivid and compelling

  • Complex

Explanation

Question 24 of 30

1

Good themes:

Select one of the following:

  • Overlap with other themes

  • Capture everything in the data

  • Are coherent

  • Are the ones that capture the most frequently articulated patterns in your data

Explanation

Question 25 of 30

1

The most important criterion for determining a theme is:

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 26 of 30

1

Which types of research questions can be addressed using both thematic analysis and IPA:

Select one of the following:

  • Questions about experience

  • Questions about language practice

  • Questions about representation

  • Questions about construction

Explanation

Question 27 of 30

1

Constructionist thematic analysis is similar to:

Select one of the following:

  • Interpretative phenomenological analysis

  • Conversation analysis

  • Narrative analysis

  • Thematic discourse analysis

Explanation

Question 28 of 30

1

In vivo codes in grounded theory are similar to:

Select one of the following:

  • Linguistic comments in interpretative phenomenological analysis

  • Descriptive comments in interpretative phenomenological analysis

  • Latent codes in thematic analysis

  • Selective coding in discourse analysis

Explanation

Question 29 of 30

1

Advanced memos in grounded theory are used to:

Select one of the following:

  • Explore initial codes

  • Direct further data collection

  • Develop and describe categories

  • Explore in vivo codes

Explanation

Question 30 of 30

1

Which of the following research questions are ideally suited to thematic analysis?

Select one of the following:

  • Questions about experiences

  • Questions about perceptions and understandings

  • Questions about representation

  • All of the above

Explanation

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