FRHD3070 FINAL EXAM Questions with Detailed Verified Answers

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FRHD3070 FINAL EXAM Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers

Question: what is high quality quantitative study ?

Ans✅ ✅: qualitative researchers have a wide variety of ways of thinking about
quality



- trustworthiness is a common way to look at quality



- how the researcher thinks about quality may depends on the epistemology, ontology
or methodology of the study

Question: what are the four criteria of trustworthiness ?

Ans✅ ✅: credibility, transferability, dependability, confirmability

Question: what is credibility in terms of trustworthiness ?

Ans✅ ✅: do the results ring true for the participants (can be hard to do)




checking the results with the research participants or triangulation (checking other
data sources)



may also be called respondent validation, member validation or member checking

Question: what is transferability in terms of trustworthiness ?

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Ans✅ ✅: can the findings apply to other contexts



ruch description of experiences helps researchers to understand if there may be
transferability to other contexts




critique : transferability is commonly NOT a goal of qualitative research

Question: what is dependability in terms of trustworthiness ?

Ans✅ ✅: would other researchers doing the same thing get the same results



rigorous recording of data collection, analysis and the decisions made



an audit trail can be used (not common)



having more than one researcher to code or analyse the data helps

Question: what is confirmability in terms of trustworthiness ?

Ans✅ ✅: would two researchers agree about the interpretations and meanings
created




methods can be thoroughly described



researcher reflexivity: what are their biases, values and assumptions