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Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research

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The type of research relying on qualitative research data.   Qualitative research  
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Type of research in which quantitative and qualtitative data or approaches are combined in a single study.   Mixed methods research  
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Only noticing data that support one's prior expectations.   Researcher bias  
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Thinking critically about one's interpretations and biases.   Reflexivity  
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Searching for cases that challenge one's expecation or one's current findings.   Negative-case sampling  
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The factual accuracy of the account reported by the researcher.   Descriptive validity  
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Use of multiple investigators to collect and interpret the data.   Investigator triangulation  
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Accurately portraying the participants' subjective viewpoints and meanings.   Interpretive validity  
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Member checking to see if participants afree with the researcher's statements, itnerpretations, and conclusions.   Participant feedback  
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Descriptors that are very close to participants' words or are direct verbatim quotes.   Low-inference descriptors  
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Degree to which the theory or explanation fits the data.   Theorhetical validity  
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Spending enough time in the field to fully understand what is being studied.   Extended fieldwork  
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The use of multiple theories or perspectives to aid in interpreting the data.   Theory triangulation  
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Construction and testing of a complex hypothesis.   Pattern matching  
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Discussing your interpretations with one's peers and collegeues.   Peer review  
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A single intentional action for a particular person in a local situation with an obeservable result.   Ideographic causation  
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The standard view of causation in science; refers to causal relationships among variables.   Nomological causation  
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Metaphor applied to researcher looking for the local cause of a single event.   Researcher-as-detective  
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Use of multiple research methods or methods of data collection.   Methods triangulation  
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Use of multiple sources of data.   Data triangulation  
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Generalization, based on similarity, made by the reader of a research report.   Naturalistic generalization  
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Generalization of a theorhetical explanation beyond the particular research study.   Theorhetical generalization  
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Qualitative research method where the researcher attempts to understand and describe how one or more participants experience a phenomenon.   Phenomenology  
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A person's subjective inner world of experience.   Life world  
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Words, phrases, or sentence length participant statements that the researcher thinks vividly communicate the participant's experience.   Significant statements  
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Phenomenological structure of the experience.   Essence  
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Qualitative research method that focuses on the discovery and description of the culutre of a group of people.   Ethnography  
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The shared beliefs, values, practices, language norms, rituals, and material things that the members of a group use to interpret and understand their world.   Culture  
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Statements or conventions that people sharing a culture hold to be true or false.   Shared beliefs  
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Culturally defined standards about that is good or bad or desirable or undesireable.   Shared values  
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Written and unwritten rules specifying how people in a group are supposed to think and act.   Norms  
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Idea that a whole, such as culture, is more than the sum of its individual parts.   Holism  
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The insider's perspective.   Emic perspective  
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The researcher's external or "objective outsider" perspective.   Etic perspective  
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Data collection method in which the researcher becomes an active participant in the group being ivestigated.   Participant observation  
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Group members who control a researcher's access to the group.   Gatekeepers  
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Nontypical behavior of participants because of the presence of the researcher.   Reactive effect  
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A general term for data collection in ethnographic research.   Fieldwork  
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Judgement of people in other cultures based on the standards of your culture.   Ethnocentric  
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Overidentification with the group being stuided so that one loses any possibility of objectivity.   Going native  
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Notes taken by the researcher during (or immediately after) one's observations in the field.   Fieldnotes  
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Qualitiative research method in which the researcher provides a detailed description and account of one or more cases.   Case study  
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A bounded system   Case  
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Case study in which the researcher is only interested in understanding the individual case.   Intrinsic case study  
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Case study in which the researcher studies a case in order to understand something more general than the particular case.   Instrumental case study  
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Study of multiple cases for the purpose of comparison.   Collective case study  
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Another name for a collective case study.   Comparative case study  
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Case study analysis in which cases are compared and contrasted.   Cross-case analysis  
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Methodology for generating and developing a theory that is grounded in the particular area.   Grounded theory  
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An explanation of how and why something operates as it does.   Theory  
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Researcher is effective in understanding what kinds of data need to be collected and what aspects of already collected data are important for theory development.   Theoretical sensitivity  
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First stage of data analysis in GT; it's the most exploratory stage.   Open coding  
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Second stage of data analysis in GT; focus is on making concepts more abstract and ordering them into the theory.   Axial coding  
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Third and final stage of data anaylsis in GT im which the theory is finalized.   Selective coding  
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Occurs when no new information relevant to the GT is emerging from the data and the GT has been sufficiently validaded.   Theoretical saturation  
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Posistion that quantitative and qualitative research methods and philosophies can be combined.   Compatibility thesis  
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Philosophy focusing on what works as the criterion of what should be viewed as tentitavely true and useful in research and practice.   Pragmatism  
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One of the two dimensions used in MM desin matrix; its levels are concurrent and sequential.   Time order  
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One of the two dimensions used in MM design matrix; its levels are equal status and dominant status.   Paradigm emphasis  
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Study of multiple cases for the purpose of comparison.   Collective case study  
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Another name for a collective case study.   Comparative case study  
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Case study analysis in which cases are compared and contrasted.   Cross-case analysis  
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Methodology for generating and developing a theory that is grounded in the particular area.   Grounded theory  
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An explanation of how and why something operates as it does.   Theory  
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Researcher is effective in understanding what kinds of data need to be collected and what aspects of already collected data are important for theory development.   Theoretical sensitivity  
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First stage of data analysis in GT; it's the most exploratory stage.   Open coding  
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Second stage of data analysis in GT; focus is on making concepts more abstract and ordering them into the theory.   Axial coding  
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Third and final stage of data anaylsis in GT im which the theory is finalized.   Selective coding  
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Occurs when no new information relevant to the GT is emerging from the data and the GT has been sufficiently validaded.   Theoretical saturation  
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Posistion that quantitative and qualitative research methods and philosophies can be combined.   Compatibility thesis  
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Philosophy focusing on what works as the criterion of what should be viewed as tentitavely true and useful in research and practice.   Pragmatism  
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One of the two dimensions used in MM desin matrix; its levels are concurrent and sequential.   Time order  
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One of the two dimensions used in MM design matrix; its levels are equal status and dominant status.   Paradigm emphasis  
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What are the three design strategies used in qualitative research and explain each one   1.Design strategies 2.Data-collection and fieldwork strategies 3.Analysis strategies  
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3 items in design strategies.   1. Naturalistic inquiry 2. Emergent design flexibility 3. Purposeful sampling  
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4 items in Data-collection and fieldwork strategies.   1. Qualitative data 2. Personal experience and engagement 3. Empathic neutrality and mindfulness 4. Dynamic systems  
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5 items in Analysis strategies   1. Unique case orientation 2. Inductive analysis and creative synthesis 3. Holistic perspective 4. Context sensitivity 5. Voice, perspective, and reflexivity  
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What threats are in qualititaive research?   Researcher bias  
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What 2 ways to reduce these threats?   1. Reflexivity (identify your own potential biases and sicern how you can minimize effects) 2. negative-case sampling (find examples that may disconfirm your prior expectations)  
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5 types of validity concerned in Qualititaive research?   1. Descriptive 2. Interpretive 3. Theorhetical 4. Internal 5. External  
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Validity strategies for descriptive and interpretive validity   Descriptive -investiator triangulation (1+ investigators agree) Interpretative -ppt feedback (ask ppt if your interpretations agree) -low-inference descriptors (use "")  
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Validity strategies for theoretical validity   Theorhetical -extended fieldwork (+data over time) -theory triangulation (consider mult. theories) -pattern matching (complex prediction) -peer review  
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Validity strategies for external and internal   Internal -researcher as detective -methods triangulation (using + methods for data collection) -data triangulation (using + data sources) External -naturalistic generalization -theoretical generalization  
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What is the difference between ideographic causation and nomological causation?    
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4 major qualitative research methods   1. Phenomenology 2. Ethnography 3. Case study 4. Grounded theory  
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