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Integrative Approach in Research Analysis MCQ

Qualitative data analysis involves:

Rigorous examination of the data patterns that are emerging

Adjusting your research protocol as needed according to emerging themes

Being open to unexpected findings and then looking for additional data and theories to support these findings.

All of the above

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Correct Answer: All of the above

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Teo wants to make sure that his secondary analysis fits with the theories he’s studied because:

This is an excellent way to triangulate his data with the literature

He’s forgotten the purpose of his study

He heard that he may need to repeat his study if theories don’t match

He lost some of his interviews and wants to repeat the process.

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Correct Answer: This is an excellent way to triangulate his data with the literature

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When Jwana’s analyzes the data of her study, she realizes that she has an unexpected lea It probably means that:

She made a number of errors

Her subjectivity is leading her astray

The findings warrant additional study

Data patterns are deductive and not inductive

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Correct Answer: The findings warrant additional study

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An ethnographic study usually:

Is completed within six months of research

Involves studying a cultural phenomenon and relies heavily on cultural understandings

Is situated in a particular time and place

Creates multiple meanings from everyone’s perspective

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Correct Answer: Involves studying a cultural phenomenon and relies heavily on cultural understandings

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A goal of qualitative research is to develop theory inductively by:

Creating a theory that others can imitate

Using a constant comparative method to inductively create an emergent theory

Using your deductive reasoning

Staying as close as possible to the date

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Correct Answer: Using a constant comparative method to inductively create an emergent theory

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Discourse analysis refers to:

Analyzing the content of the conversations in the data

Looking at what your participants talked about

The literature in your study

Understanding the different opinions of theorists.

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Correct Answer: Analyzing the content of the conversations in the data

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Once codes are developed from the themes, a researcher begins to:

Collapse and remove data that do not fit

Look for outlying data

Look for similar themes across the data

All of the above

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Correct Answer: All of the above

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Once codes are developed from the themes, a researcher begins to:

Collapse and remove data that do not fit

Look for outlying data

Look for similar themes across the data

All of the above

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Correct Answer: All of the above

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When you begin analyzing your data using a phenomenological approach:

Themes are developed based on common interests

Themes are developed based on repeating ideas, comments, and information

Themes emerge from your subconscious

Themes emerge from your subjective date

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Correct Answer: Themes are developed based on repeating ideas, comments, and information

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“Intentionality” is a term used to describe the researcher’s:

Acknowledgment of a degree of subjectivity

Being mindful of how dangerous assumptions can be

Transparency in the collection of data

All of the above

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Correct Answer: All of the above

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Findings are generated based on themes, and the interpretation of the themes is the work of the researcher.

True

False

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Correct Answer: True

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Data are analyzed while you are collecting data as well as at the end of the study.

True

False

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Correct Answer: True

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Your research findings:

Are discovered at the end of data analysis

Emerge from the data itself through analysis and the generation of themes

Have to be replicable

All of the above

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Correct Answer: Emerge from the data itself through analysis and the generation of themes

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Data analysis should follow a process that is:

Not always clear to outsiders

Transparent and intentional

Best done at the end of a study

Reliant on counting words that are repeate

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Correct Answer: Transparent and intentional

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Data analysis is often a hard part of qualitative research because:

It can be “messy” with many parts and processes

It’s not transparent

It’s intuitive

It’s based on a hunch.

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Correct Answer: It can be “messy” with many parts and processes

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Interpretive Authority is the power of the researcher to be the interpreter and translator of people’s _____

Lived Experiences

Perspectives

Religious beliefs

Both a and b

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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Interpretive Authority is the power of the researcher to be the interpreter and translator of people’s _____

Lived Experiences

Perspectives

Religious beliefs

Both a and b

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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The purpose of Qualitative Data Analysis is_____

Processing the structured data

Identifying the themes

Turning the themes into findings

All of these

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Correct Answer: All of these

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