Final Exam - Qualitative Research
Methods well answered to pass
Qualitative Research - correct answer ✔✔Human experience is complex & cannot be
understood by identifying & examining its parts.
Meaning is derived from an individual's under-standing in his or her natural, social environment
Quantitative Research - correct answer ✔✔Seeks to confirm hypotheses about phenomenon
Instruments use more rigid style of eliciting and categorizing responses to questions
Use highly structured methods such as questionnaires, surveys, and structured observation
Qualitative - correct answer ✔✔Seek to explore phenomenon
These are more iterative styles (iterative - you take each step at a time, you may not do the
same thing at each step)
Instruments use more flexible, iterative style of eliciting and categorizing responses to questions
Use semi-structured methods such as in-depth interviews, focus groups, and participant
observation
Quantitative questions - correct answer ✔✔closed-ended
, Qualitative questions - correct answer ✔✔open-ended
Quantitative analytical objectives - correct answer ✔✔to quantify variation
Qualitative analytical objectives - correct answer ✔✔to describe variation
Quantitative used to predict - correct answer ✔✔causal relationships
Qualitative is used to describe - correct answer ✔✔individual experiences
Quantitative data - correct answer ✔✔Numerical
Study design is stable from beginning to end
Qualitative data - correct answer ✔✔textual (obtained from audiotapes, videotapes, and field
notes)
Some aspects of the study are flexible (for example, the addition, exclusion, or wording of
particular interview questions)
Qualitative Research (AKA Naturalistic Inquiry) - correct answer ✔✔based on inductive and
abductive reasoning (inductive reasoning)
Abductive Reasoning - correct answer ✔✔Patterns and concepts that emerge from an
examination of information or data, which in some cases may relate to available theories and in
other cases may not
Methods well answered to pass
Qualitative Research - correct answer ✔✔Human experience is complex & cannot be
understood by identifying & examining its parts.
Meaning is derived from an individual's under-standing in his or her natural, social environment
Quantitative Research - correct answer ✔✔Seeks to confirm hypotheses about phenomenon
Instruments use more rigid style of eliciting and categorizing responses to questions
Use highly structured methods such as questionnaires, surveys, and structured observation
Qualitative - correct answer ✔✔Seek to explore phenomenon
These are more iterative styles (iterative - you take each step at a time, you may not do the
same thing at each step)
Instruments use more flexible, iterative style of eliciting and categorizing responses to questions
Use semi-structured methods such as in-depth interviews, focus groups, and participant
observation
Quantitative questions - correct answer ✔✔closed-ended
, Qualitative questions - correct answer ✔✔open-ended
Quantitative analytical objectives - correct answer ✔✔to quantify variation
Qualitative analytical objectives - correct answer ✔✔to describe variation
Quantitative used to predict - correct answer ✔✔causal relationships
Qualitative is used to describe - correct answer ✔✔individual experiences
Quantitative data - correct answer ✔✔Numerical
Study design is stable from beginning to end
Qualitative data - correct answer ✔✔textual (obtained from audiotapes, videotapes, and field
notes)
Some aspects of the study are flexible (for example, the addition, exclusion, or wording of
particular interview questions)
Qualitative Research (AKA Naturalistic Inquiry) - correct answer ✔✔based on inductive and
abductive reasoning (inductive reasoning)
Abductive Reasoning - correct answer ✔✔Patterns and concepts that emerge from an
examination of information or data, which in some cases may relate to available theories and in
other cases may not
