TEST YOUR UNDERSTANDING - QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

Qualitative researchers study:

• Participant's experience of everyday life

• How participants make sense of their experiences

• Participant's feelings and emotions

• All of the above

Identify the limitation of Qualitative Research

• Rich data is generated

• People can be studied in their own environment

• Identifies and evaluate ways to help solve complex problems

• Data may be difficult to analyze

Identify the strength of Qualitative Research Methods

• It is time consuming

• It can explain phenomena

• There is a lot of data that is difficult to analyze

• Data analysis is objective

Qualitative Research is not concerned with which of the following?

• Running a statistical test for significance

• To describe and explain events

• Create suggestions to overcome problems

• Study people in their own environment

We collect date in Qualitative Research in all these ways EXCEPT

• Interviews

• Case Studies

• Controlled Experiments

• Observations

What is Ethnographic research?

• Census collecting data

• Survey data collection

• The study of people in their own environment

• Communicative research

Which research design is concerned with one's lived experiences?

• Critical Theory

• Grounded Theory

• Phenomenology

• Ethnography

What is Grounded theory methodology?

• Is inductive, gathering enough information to form a theory

• is a theory based on lived experiences

• In inclusive, where all researchers make a hypothesis

• Is a theory based on the culture of a group

Which of the following are typically true of qualitative research?

• Little contact with participants, numerical data analysis

• Little contact with participants, narrative data analysis

• Lots of contact with participants, numerical data analysis

• Lots of contact with participants, narrative data analysis

Lived experiences of parents caring for a child with a life time condition in Australia: A qualitative study. Which methodology would best fit this title?

• Grounded theory

• Ethnography

• Phenomenology

• Case Study