The central focus of qualitative research is to provide understanding of a social setting or activity from the perspective of the research participants.

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Empathic neutrality requires a researcher to include one’s personal experience and empathic insight as part of the relevant data.

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An interviewer constructs the meaning of the content of an interview.

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One of the first issues in qualitative research is to gain entry to a site.

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One indicator that an adequate number of participants has been selected is the extent to which the selected participants represent the range of potential participants in the setting.

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Purposive sampling strategies are especially not useful in qualitative research.

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A qualitative researcher should be concerned of potential participants who are extremely eager to be included in the study.

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An overt participant observer participates as well as collects data during an observation session.

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Each observation session has its unique focus and interactions but shouldn’t be guided by a protocol or list of issues that frame the observation.

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In qualitative research, data analysis begins as the researcher initiates data management.

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An interviewer will almost always meet face-to-face with an interviewee while some observers will not.

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Transcripts are the field notes of an interview session.

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Data analysis and interpretation are based on deduction as the qualitative researcher discovers patterns emerging from the data and makes sense of them.

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There are predefined variables to focus qualitative analysis of the data.

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