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RDA QUALI EXAM Quiz on textual data collection- story completion tasks, created by flora strange on 02/05/2017.

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textual data collection- story completion tasks

Question 1 of 9

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a story completion task...

Select one of the following:

  • a method of data collection, where participants are given the start of a story and asked to complete or continue it

  • a short hypothetical scenario; as a method of qualitative data collection

  • a book in which one keeps a daily record of events and experiences

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Question 2 of 9

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story completion tasks are a projective-technique (typically used when there are thought to be barriers to verbal or written self-report)

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 3 of 9

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Participants complete a ‘’ or a ‘’

Drag and drop to complete the text.

    story stem
    flesh out
    story cue

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Question 4 of 9

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some design issues are..(3)

Select one or more of the following:

  • story needs to be easily understood

  • story needs to be meaningful to participants

  • it should be clear and use appropriate language

  • it should prompt responses that are easy to analyse

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Question 5 of 9

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what is crucial when design a story completion task?

Select one of the following:

  • piloting

  • specificity

  • clarification

  • penguin approved

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Question 6 of 9

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some strengths of story completion tasks are...(3)

Select one or more of the following:

  • useful for understanding people's opinions, perceptions and views

  • like surveys, can collect lots of data and avoid face-to-face ethical issues

  • useful method for comparative designs

  • can get clear straight to the point responses

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Question 7 of 9

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further strengths of story completion tasks are...(3)

Select one or more of the following:

  • An indirect and ‘disguised’ way of accessing people’s views and
    perspectives (potentially avoiding social demands)

  • A way of accessing assumptions and ‘hidden’ meanings

  • Useful for researching sensitive and ethically/morally complex topics

  • it's interesting to re-read

  • it's not time consuming

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Question 8 of 9

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weaknesses of story completion tasks include...(4)

Select one or more of the following:

  • Data is less predictable than other (self-report) methods

  • Data generated can be less transparent and harder to analyse than self-report data

  • Gap between story and ‘reality’(but in qualitative research we are more concerned with the meanings people draw on in writing their stories)

  • The artificiality of the technique

  • it's very ambiguous thus cannot draw conclusions to meanings behind stories

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Question 9 of 9

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practicalities of story completion tasks...(2)

Select one or more of the following:

  • 15-30 is a good range

  • can use potentially any analysis, but TA, GT, NA and PS-DA are particularly suitable

  • TA is more suitable to analyse responses

  • 180-200 is a good range

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