Companion MCQ's: Collecting data

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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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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
  • Focus groups
  • Qualitative surveys
  • 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
  • Open-ended and short questions
  • Multiple questions and leading questions
  • Vague and short questions

Question 3

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Which of the following qualitative methods reduces the power and control of the researcher?
Answer
  • Interviews
  • Qualitative surveys
  • Focus groups
  • Story completion tasks

Question 4

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People management is a particular consideration when using which of the following qualitative methods?
Answer
  • Qualitative surveys
  • Focus groups
  • Interviews
  • Story completion tasks

Question 5

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Which of the following are examples of ‘secondary sources’?
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  • Interviews and diaries
  • Personal documents and story completion tasks
  • Diaries and surveys
  • Personal documents and the media

Question 6

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Qualitative surveys are particularly useful for?
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  • Collecting individual views, opinions and experiences
  • Generating rich, detailed and ‘deep’ data
  • Generating unanticipated insights
  • 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
  • An emphasis on collecting individual views, opinions and experience
  • An emphasis on collecting data from small samples
  • 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?
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  • Interviews
  • Researcher-directed diaries
  • Story completion tasks
  • Surveys

Question 9

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Which of the following methods is more commonly used in quantitative research than qualitative research?
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  • Semi-structured interviewing
  • Focus groups
  • Thematic analysis
  • Story-completion tasks

Question 10

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An important design feature of story completion tasks is?
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  • Being meaningful to participants
  • Being realistic to participants
  • Being artificial to participants
  • 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
  • Conversation analysis
  • Focus groups
  • Story-completion tasks

Question 12

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What are the major design issues in using secondary sources?
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  • Meaningfulness to participants
  • Sample and rationale
  • Size of sample
  • Realism

Question 13

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What is the major motivation for using secondary sources?
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  • 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

Question 14

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Virtual interviews can encourage participants to:
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  • Disclose socially undesirable information
  • Multi-task during an interview
  • Demand payment for their participation
  • 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
  • Interpretative Phenomenological research
  • Research focused on general views and opinions
  • 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
  • One
  • Three
  • 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
  • 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

Question 18

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An ideal size for a focus group is about:
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  • 1-3 participants
  • 10-15 participants
  • 4-8 participants
  • 6-12 participants

Question 19

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

Question 20

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Focus groups are ideally suited to research questions about:
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  • Individual experiences
  • People’s opinions and values
  • Highly emotive topics
  • None of the above
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