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qualitative research correct answers interested in uncovering meaning; interested in understanding how people interpret their experiences, construct their worlds and what meaning they contribute to experiences uncovering meaning correct answers Qualitative research is interested in __ __. how correct answers Instead of finding out how MANY students exercise, qualitative research wants to find out __ students find time to exercise. interpretive; critical; post modern correct answers What are the paradigms of qualitative research? interpretive correct answers this paradigm wants to describe, understand and interpret, it believes in multiple realities that are context bound critical correct answers this paradigm wants to change, emancipate and empower post modern correct answers this paradigm wants to deconstruct, problematize, question and interrupt focuses on meaning and understanding; research as primary instrument; inductive process; rich description; emergent and flexible; purposeful; natural setting; understanding of subjectivity/objectivity correct answers What are the characteristics of qualitative research? meaning; understanding; description; natural; flexible correct answers Qualitative research focuses on __ and __. It involves rich __. It is in a __ setting. It is __. focuses on meaning and understanding correct answers how people interpret their experiences; how they construct their worlds; insider's perspective researcher as primary instrument correct answers the goal of the research is to understand and therefor a human instrument is the most ideal means of collection inductive process correct answers you are now putting together a puzzle whose picture you already know but constructing a picture that takes shape as you collect and examine the parts; research gather data to build rather then deductively testing rich description correct answers words and pictures are used to convey what the research has learned; show not tell; quotes, field notes, participant interviews emergent and flexible correct answers responding to changing conditions in the study progress (many not be applicable with a grant or IRB might need to be changed) purposeful correct answers sample selection is usually non random