Provide two examples of how values and culture may conflict with classroom practices.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 2According to the text, which one of the following is not a criterion for evaluating a research design in qualitative inquiry?
a. informational adequacy c. efficiency
b. generalizability d. ethical acceptability
Ques. 3List several ways that members of various ethnic groups differ in verbal and nonverbal communication patterns.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 4Which of the following is not a suggestion to guide the work of qualitative researchers?
a. Have an outside reader of your fieldnotes.
b. Look for points of conflict and contradictions in the data.
c. Try to study a group to which you already belong and with which you are familiar.
d. Allow as much time for data analysis as was required for data collection.
Ques. 5What is culture?
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 6The most important reason for using a team approach in qualitative research is that
a. the researcher has less to do in developing a research design and carrying out the study.
b. it increases the trustworthiness of the study.
c. it increases the generalizability of the study.
d. it establishes an audit trail.
Ques. 7Define ethnocentrism.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 8Typically, in what section of a qualitative report is relevant research presented and discussed?
a. introduction
b. research design
c. methods
d. appendix
Ques. 9Explain why the United States has become more culturally diverse since the late 1960s and early 1970s.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 10Which of the following is not a characteristic of data analysis in qualitative research?
a. data are analyzed inductively. c. analysis focuses primarily on process.
b. data are analyzed statistically. d. purpose of analysis is to seek meaning.
Ques. 11Describe the three beliefs on which cultural pluralism is based.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 12The writer of a qualitative report who knows the journal to which he/she might want to submit the article should first
a. contact the editor of the journal.
b. examine recent issues of the journal.
c. decide on the length of the article.
d. set the date for publication.
e. select an alternative publication source.
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