According to the text, which one of the following is not a criterion for evaluating a research ...

According 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. 2

Which 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. 3

The 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. 4

Typically, in what section of a qualitative report is relevant research presented and discussed?
 
  a. introduction
  b. research design
  c. methods
  d. appendix

Ques. 5

Which 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. 6

The 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.

Ques. 7

The appendix of a qualitative report should contain
 
  a. review of literature.
  b. sampling techniques used to select subjects.
  c. results of any tests of significance that were used.
  d. copies of interview schedules or other data-gathering procedures.

Ques. 8

To help a reader to vicariously experience the research setting and to understand how the conclusions of a qualitative study were reached, a qualitative report should
 
  a. organize the report according to the hypotheses that guided the study.
  b. use direct quotes and field note excerpts.
  c. organize the data according to the order in which they were collected.
  d. describe the data collection methods that were used.

Ques. 9

A qualitative researcher is analyzing data and comes across quotes and descriptions that provide a completely different perspective. These data represent
 
  a. negative cases that should be considered.
  b. discrepant cases that should be considered.
  c. negative cases that should be ignored.
  d. discrepant cases that should be ignored.

Ques. 10

To counterbalance the tendency to hold on to first impressions or hunches about the data, a qualitative researcher uses
 
  a. negative case and discrepant data analysis.
  b. constant comparison and correlational data analysis.
  c. negative case and cross case analysis.
  d. constant comparison and member checks.