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Quiz by Róisín Farmer, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Róisín Farmer
almost 7 years ago
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Question 1
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Which three criteria are associated with the evaluation of qualitative research?
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Reliability, validity and coherence
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Coherence, resonating with readers and reliability
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Situating the sample, reliability and grounding in examples
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Coherence, resonating with readers and owning one’s perspective
Question 2
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Which are some of Lucy Yardley’s (2008) open-ended, flexible principles for judging the quality of qualitative analysis?
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Sensitivity to context, validity and reliability
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Sensitivity to context, commitment and rigour and transparency and coherence
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Commitment and rigour, generalisability and transferability
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Transferability, dependability and member checking
Question 3
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It is appropriate to use member checking as a credibility check when:
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You have used discourse analysis to analyse your data
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You are unsure if your analysis is correct
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Your analysis aims to stay close to participants’ perspectives
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You have produced a theoretical and conceptual interpretation of your data
Question 4
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You can ‘situate your sample’ by:
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Disclosing identifying information about your participants
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Describing what your participants were wearing during the interview
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Providing a detailed summary of the demographic information you collected
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Agreeing and disagreeing with your participants
Question 5
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In order to ‘ground in examples’ it is important to:
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Discuss relevant literature
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Support your analytic claims with illustrative data extracts
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Provide an in-depth analysis of one, long data extract
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Ensure there is a good fit between the data extracts and your analytic commentary
Question 6
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In a 10,000 word report, the introduction section should be about:
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5,000 words long
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2,500 words long
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4,000 words long
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1,000 words long
Question 7
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The purpose of a literature review in a qualitative research report is to:
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Contextualise your research
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Show how much you have read
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Critique the methodological flaws of existing research and show how you will overcome them
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Show how your study will relate to quantitative research
Question 8
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In the general discussion section of a qualitative report, it is always important to:
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Introduce new material
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Show how your research is better than quantitative research
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Discuss the limitations of your sample
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Evaluate the limitations of your research
Question 9
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Editing a draft of your report:
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Is only important if you have used discourse analysis
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Is only necessary to correct typos
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Is an important part of good academic writing
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Is only necessary when you are not happy with what you have written
Question 10
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One of the features of good qualitative poster design is:
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Lots of text that tells the reader everything about the project
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A font that can be read from 6-8 feet away
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A really fancy font
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A font that can be read from 2-4 feet away
Question 11
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A visually pleasing qualitative poster uses:
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Lots of different colours
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Lots of text
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Lots of tables and figures
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One or two background colours
Question 12
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Qualitative posters are easier to read when:
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There is lighter text against a darker background
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When text is presented in large blocks
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There is darker text against a lighter background
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When all the text is bullet pointed
Question 13
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Reliability is not a meaningful criteria for judging the quality of qualitative research because:
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Qualitative research is biased
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Qualitative research is unscientific
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The findings of qualitative research will inevitably bear the mark of the researcher
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Qualitative research has limited generalisability
Question 14
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One of the key quality criteria for discursive research is:
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Member checking
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Reader validation
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Peer debriefing
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Triangulation
Question 15
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Member checking assumes that:
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Participants are the ultimate authority on their experience
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Researchers are biased
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Qualitative research is subjective
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It’s difficult to produce good quality qualitative research
Question 16
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Providing a ‘thick description’ to enable another researcher to determine whether they can ‘safely’ transfer your findings to another context is Lincoln and Guba’s (1989) definition of:
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Member checking
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Credibility checking
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Negative case analysis
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Transferability
Question 17
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Elliot et al.’s (1999) guidelines for the publishability of qualitative research, include:
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Respect of participants
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Appropriate discussion
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Owning one’s perspective
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Appropriate methods
Question 18
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Credibility checks such as member checking are problematic in discourse analytic research because:
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It takes too long
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Participants will disagree with the findings
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The analyst has the best insight into the data
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The analysis does not aim to capture participants’ perspectives on their experiences
Question 19
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Some of the problems with member checking include:
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Participants’ reluctance to disagree with the researcher’s interpretations
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The difficulty of engaging participants in the process
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Participants’ comments on the interpretations may be motivated by something other than helping the researcher best understand their experiences
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All of the above
Question 20
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When giving an oral presentation of qualitative research you should:
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Include as much information as possible on your PowerPoint slides
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Use PowerPoint selectively to highlight key points and show data extracts
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Not include any data quotes
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Only discuss one theme
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