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RDA2 - Qualitative Quiz on Companion MCQ's: Getting started , created by Róisín Farmer on 02/05/2017.
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Question 1

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“AIDS does not exist apart from the practices that conceptualise it, represent it, and respond to it.” (Crimp, 1988, p. 3). This quotation is associated with which epistemological/theoretical framework?
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  • Contextualism
  • Positivism
  • Social constructionism
  • Phenomenology

Question 2

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‘The process of critically reflecting on the content and process of the knowledge we produce’ is a definition of which key concept in qualitative research?
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  • Subjectivity
  • Epistemology
  • Reflexivity
  • Ontology

Question 3

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Which of the following key concepts are associated with qualitative research?
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  • Reflexivity, objectivity and subjectivity
  • Reflexivity, subjectivity and generating meaning and understanding
  • Subjectivity, reliability and generating meaning and understanding
  • Objectivity, reliability and validity

Question 4

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Qualitative research is primarily concerned with…?
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  • Generating meaning and understanding
  • Theory testing
  • Testing hypotheses
  • Predicting relationships between phenomenon

Question 5

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Qualitative research is primarily concerned with…?
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  • Collecting participants’ responses to pre-determined categories
  • Representativeness in sampling
  • Participants’ language and concepts
  • Avoiding bias

Question 6

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Which is a key feature of qualitative research?
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  • Seeking consensus
  • Accommodating and exploring difference
  • Valuing detachment
  • Large numbers of participants

Question 7

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Qualitative research is primarily concerned with…?
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  • Generating rich data
  • Large numbers of participants
  • Generating broad data
  • Seeking relationships between variables

Question 8

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‘The theory or philosophy of the nature of reality and being’ is a definition of which of the following concepts?
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  • Epistemology
  • Reflexivity
  • Subjectivity
  • Ontology

Question 9

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A sample of 50 participants in a qualitative interview study is?
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  • A relatively large sample
  • Too small to generate meaningful results
  • An average sized sample
  • Too large to generate meaningful results

Question 10

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One of the most common types of sampling used in qualitative research is?
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  • Random sampling
  • Purposive sampling
  • Stratified sampling
  • Maximum heterogeneity sampling

Question 11

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A sample is saturated in an interview study when?
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  • No new information is emerging from your interviews
  • You have interviewed about 30 participants
  • You have interview about 90 participants
  • You have interviewed each participant twice

Question 12

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Three types of sampling commonly used in qualitative research include:
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  • Random, snowball and convenience
  • Stratified, random and convenience
  • Purpose, convenience and random
  • Snowball, purposive and convenience

Question 13

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The ‘usual suspects’ are:
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  • The people least likely to be invited to participate in qualitative research
  • The white, middle class people that tend to dominate qualitative research samples
  • The people that are hard-to-engage in research
  • The population that is often least accessible to researchers

Question 14

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Hidden populations are:
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  • Ones that seek to avoid participating in research
  • Ones that are less visible to researchers
  • Ones that should only be included in maximum heterogeneity samples
  • Ones that tend to dominate convenience samples

Question 15

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Hard-to-engage participant groups are:
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  • Ones that perceive little value in research participation
  • Ones that will only participate in research in return for money
  • Ones that insist on being interviewed at the weekend
  • Ones that only want to participate in research that will have some tangible impact on service provision to vulnerable groups in society

Question 16

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Insider researchers are:
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  • Biased
  • A member of the group they are researching
  • Not a member of the group they are researching
  • Simultaneously conducting their own research project and participating in someone else’s research

Question 17

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One of the advantages of being an insider researcher is that:
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  • Participants are more likely to disclose socially undesirable behaviour
  • Interviews are quicker to conduct
  • You can join in the focus group discussions you are moderating
  • It can be easier to establish rapport and trust with the participant group

Question 18

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Participant information sheets should:
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  • Be as short as possible to avoid confusing participants
  • Include technical terms, to display the accurate scientific information
  • Provide participants with an appropriate amount of information, to allow them to make an informed decision about participation
  • Conceal the true aims of the research to ensure that participants aren’t too influenced by the researcher

Question 19

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Information about possible sources of support should:
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  • Be given to all participants
  • Only be given to participants who cry during an interview
  • Only be included on a debrief sheet
  • Only be given to participants who ask for it

Question 20

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People’s rights as voluntary participants include the right...:
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  • To be paid for their research participation
  • To receive a copy of their interview transcript and a copy of the final research report
  • To express their views in whatever way they choose to
  • To stop data collection at any time without giving a reason

Question 21

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It’s important to collect demographic data from participants because:
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  • This enables participants to be more easily identified by people who know them
  • This enables the researcher to generalise their results
  • This helps the participants to identify themselves in the report of the research
  • This enables the researcher to conduct good quality research by ‘situating their sample’

Question 22

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On demographic sheets it is common to ask for information about:
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  • People’s age and race/ethnicity
  • People’s age and monthly income
  • People’s monthly income and educational level
  • People’s height and weight

Question 23

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You should never ask participants about their:
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  • Sexuality
  • Religious beliefs
  • Genital piercings
  • None of the above

Question 24

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Which of the following statements best describes why some people choose to do qualitative research:
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  • Because it’s more objective than quantitative research
  • Because it’s easier than quantitative research
  • Because they find statistics really difficult
  • Because they are interesting in language and meaning

Question 25

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Bias is not a meaningful concept when critiquing qualitative researcher because:
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  • Qualitative research is objective
  • Qualitative research recognises ‘bias’ as an inevitable component of research
  • Qualitative research is the poor cousin of quantitative research
  • Qualitative research is unscientific
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