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| a data collection method in which an interviewer adapts and modifies the interview for each interviewee |
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| a data collection method in which an interviewer reads a standardized list of questions to the respondent and records the respondent's answers. |
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| a sense of interpersonal harmony, connection or compatibility between an interviewer and an interviewee |
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| methods of collecting data by observing people, most typically in their natural settings. |
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| what is the difference between a qualitative and structured interview? |
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structured- can limit responses and feelings because standardized questions
qualitative-can get perspective of interviewee because interviewer can change and adapt script |
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| semi-structured interview |
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an interview with an interview guide containing primarily open ended questions that can be modified for each interview
Good for exploratory and descriptive work |
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| the list of topics to cover and the order in which to cover them that can be used to guide less structured interviews |
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a data collection method in which the interviewer starts with only a general sense of the topics to be discussed and creates questions as the interaction proceeds.
Good for exploratory and descriptive work |
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| interviews using visual methods- photo elicitation |
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| a technique where photographs help reveal information and encourage discussion of events and meanings in the participants life. |
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| a data collection technique using photographs to elicit information and encourage discussion usually in conjunction with qualitative interviewing |
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| the change in a respondent's behavior or answers that is the result of being interviewed by a specific interviewer |
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| This method of interviewing is expensive and time consuming, so it is most commonly used in small samples |
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| controlled (systematic) observations |
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| observations that involve clear decisions about what is to be observed |
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| bare-bone description of acts |
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| reports about behavior that provide a sense of things like the intentions, motives, and meanings behind the behavior |
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| complete participant role |
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| being or pretending to be, a genuine participant in a situation one observes |
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| participant as observer role |
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| being primarily a participant, while admitting an observer status |
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| observer as participant role |
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| being primarily a self-professed observer while occasionally participating in the situation |
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| being an observer of a situation without becoming apart of it. |
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| the point where new interviewees or settings look a lot like interviewees or settings one has observed before. |
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| a non-probability sampling procedure that involves selecting elements based on the researcher's judgement about which elements will facilitate his or her investigation. |
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| a plausible and appealing explanation of the research that the researcher gives to the prospective participants |
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| someone who can get a researcher into a setting |
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| an approach to studying society and culture that employs images as a data source. |
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| the video recording of participants and the reviewing of the resulting footage for insights into social life |
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| participants in a study situation who are interviewed for an in-depth understanding of the situation. |
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| theory derived from data in the course of a particular study |
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| characteristics that the observed take on simply as a result of being observed. |
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| what is the purpose of observational techniques? |
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to gain relatively unfiltered views of behavior,
to get a handle on relatively unknown social,
to obtain a relatively deep understanding of others' experiences
to study behavior
to study quickly changing situations
to save money |
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| data that are easily accessible |
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| summaries of data collected by large organizations |
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| research data that have been collected by someone else |
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| data that the same researcher collects and uses |
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the fallacy of making inferences about certain types of individuals from information about groups that might not be exclusively composed of those individuals
-making inferences about a group based on few test subjects |
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| indicators of interactions, events, or behaviors whose creation does not affect the actual data collected |
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| records of private lives, such as biographies, letters, diaries and essays |
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| What is a disadvantage of using available data? |
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| a method of data collection in which some form of communication is studied systematically. |
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| quantitative content analysis |
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| analysis focused on the variable characteristics of communication |
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| the units about which information is collected |
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| the units from which information is collected |
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| qualitative content analysis |
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| content analysis designed for verbal analysis |
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| a set of techniques used to analyze images |
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| why do we do content analysis? |
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test hypotheses about communication
to compare the content of such communication with some standard
describe trends in communication |
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| research intended to be useful in the immediate future and to suggest action or increase effectiveness in some area. |
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| research to add to our fundamental understanding and knowledge of the social world regardless of practical or immediate implications |
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| research specifically designed to assess the impacts of programs, policies. or legal changes |
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| research that is designed to "sum up" the effects of a program, policy or law in accomplishing the goal or intent of the program, policy, or law. |
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| research that compares a program's costs to its benefits |
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| cost-effectiveness analysis |
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| comparisons of program costs in delivering desired benefits based on the assumption that the outcome is desirable. |
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| evaluation research focused on the design or early implementation stages of a program or policy |
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| research that monitors a program or policy to determine if its implemented as designed |
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| a testable expectation about an independent variable's effect on a dependent variable |
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| agreement between a study's conclusions about causal connections and what is actually true |
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| participatory action research or PAR |
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| research done by community members and researchers working as co-participants, most typically within a social justice framework to empower people and improve their lives |
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| quantitative data analysis |
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| analysis based on the statistical summary of data |
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| qualitative data analysis |
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| analysis that results in the interpretation of action or representations of meanings in researcher's own words |
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| assigning observations to categories |
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stats used to describe and interpret sample data
-who and what (age, gender, education, etc) |
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| stats used to make inferences about the populations from which the sample was drawn |
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| tells us about one variable |
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| tells us about two variables |
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| tells us about more than 2 variables |
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| the value that occurs most in a group of numbers |
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| the middle value in a set of numbers when arranged in order |
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| the average of all of the numbers |
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| a way of showing the number of times each category of a variable occurs in a sample |
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| an interval level variable that has one or few cases that fall into extreme categories |
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| the difference between the highest and lowest values |
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| a measure of dispersion designed for interval level variables that accounts for every value's distance from the sample mean. |
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| the process of making a bi-variate table to examine a relationship between two variables |
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| measures that give a sense of the strength of a relationship between two variables |
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| measures that provide a sense not only of the strength of the relationship between two variables but also its direction |
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| a variable that is held constant to examine the relationship between two other variables |
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| extended notes that tell the researcher what the codes mean |
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| what is the purpose of quantitative data analysis? |
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| demonstrate the presence or absence of association between variables |
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| what is the difference between units of analysis and units of observation? |
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analysis- what we want to know
observation- where we get it |
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| comparing average scores between two groups |
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