C&I 87002 (Forms of Inquiry)

1.      One of the following is not a definition of narrative inquiry.

• a.Narrative inquiry is a storytelling methodology in which a story(ies) of a research participant(s) is researched as a way of knowing

• b.  It can be found in disciplines like psychology, education and law

• c. Narrative inquiry offers a way to frame how stories are being told and how stories are being reported and what is being selected as stories to be told and remembered

• d. All of the above.

2. One of the following is not a complete list of types of narrative enquiry.

• a. Thematic, biographical, autoethnography, life history

• b.  Oral history, arts-based, autoethnography, biographical

• c.  Life history, biographical, gynaecological, thematic

• d.   Arts-based, oral history, thematic, autoethnography

   In qualitative research, phenomenological inquiry provides _______ and methodological framework in qualitative research.

•     a. Quantitative

•     b. Biographical

• c. Theoretical

• d. Narrative

Bhattacharya (2017) stated that the order of the key ideas in phenomenological research is to identify a phenomenon, work with people with the same phenomenological experience, and ________

• a. Review the IRB process

• b. Choose a type of phenomenological enquiry

• c. Start the literature review

• d. Collect data

One of the following is not a type of phenomenological inquiry.

• a. Theocratic phenomenology

• b. Transcendental phenomenology

• c. Hermeneutic phenomenology

• d. Existential phenomenology

_______________ is a suitable approach when there is a need to generate a theory with the use of data when a subject area has little or no information.

• a.  Case study

• b. Life history

• c. Oral history

• d. Grounded theory

One of the following pairs of grounded theory inquiry does not imply the same thing

• a.      Constructivist/relativist

• b.     Constructivist/classical

• c . Classical/objectivist

Case study has all the following characteristics except_____

• a.      It investigates issues that are occurring during the time of the research

• b. It can be done for several years

• c.  It can be carried out for short periods of time.

• d. It answers focused questions.

Ethnography is primarily the study of_____

• a.      Way of life of people

• b. Culture

• c.  Interpreting people’s descriptions of themselves.

• d.   All of the above

Which of the following statements is true about ethnographic research?

• a. All outsider researchers in the past have been very objective

• b.  Ethnographic researchers can collect data for one semester.

• c. Most communities prefer an insider researcher.

• d. Ethnographic researchers can study a community of people scattered abroad.