NUR 302 - Chapter 14 Questions with Verified Answers (Correct
Update)
Question 1: The term emergent design in qualitative inquiry refers to a research design that emerges
at which of the following times?
A. During the conduct of a literature review
B. While the researcher develops a conceptual framework
C. Before the study is begun
D. While the researcher is in the field collecting data
Answer: D. While the researcher is in the field collecting data
Question 2: Which of the following is an issue that a qualitative researcher attends to in planning a
study? Select all that apply.
A. Selecting a site
B. Identifying needed equipment for field work
C. Selecting research instruments
D. Determining the maximum amount of time available for field work
Answer: A, B, D
Question 3: Which of the following design features can apply to both a qualitative and quantitative
study?
A. Manipulation of the independent variable
B. Cross-sectional versus longitudinal data collection
C. Control over confounding variables
D. Random assignment of study participants
Answer: B. Cross-sectional versus longitudinal data collection
Question 4: Hermeneutics is closely allied with which research tradition?
A. Ethnography
B. Phenomenology
C. Grounded theory
D. Symbolic Interaction
Answer: B. Phenomenology
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, Question 5: Ethnographers strive to do which of the following?
A. Understand human cultures
B. Develop an etic perspective
C. Link the etic and emic perspectives into a unified whole
D. Understand the essence of a phenomenon
Answer: A. Understand human cultures
Question 6: An ethnographic study of a clinic that specialized in abortion services by someone from
outside that culture would most likely be an example of which of the following?
A. An auto-ethnography
B. A critical ethnography
C. A microethnography
D. A macroethnography
Answer: C. A microethnography
Question 7: Which of the following is a step in descriptive phenomenology? Select all that apply.
A. Bracketing
B. Inferring
C. Analyzing
D. Describing
Answer: A, C, D
Question 8: A study that focused on the meaning of sacrifice among wounded military personnel
during war time would likely use which of the following?
A. A descriptive phenomenological approach
B. A grounded theory approach
C. An ethnography
D. A hermeneutic approach
Answer: D. A hermeneutic approach
Question 9: Participant observation is a data collection strategy used in almost all of which of the
following?
A. Ethnographic studies
B. Case studies
C. Phenomenological studies
D. Descriptive qualitative studies
Answer: A. Ethnographic studies
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Update)
Question 1: The term emergent design in qualitative inquiry refers to a research design that emerges
at which of the following times?
A. During the conduct of a literature review
B. While the researcher develops a conceptual framework
C. Before the study is begun
D. While the researcher is in the field collecting data
Answer: D. While the researcher is in the field collecting data
Question 2: Which of the following is an issue that a qualitative researcher attends to in planning a
study? Select all that apply.
A. Selecting a site
B. Identifying needed equipment for field work
C. Selecting research instruments
D. Determining the maximum amount of time available for field work
Answer: A, B, D
Question 3: Which of the following design features can apply to both a qualitative and quantitative
study?
A. Manipulation of the independent variable
B. Cross-sectional versus longitudinal data collection
C. Control over confounding variables
D. Random assignment of study participants
Answer: B. Cross-sectional versus longitudinal data collection
Question 4: Hermeneutics is closely allied with which research tradition?
A. Ethnography
B. Phenomenology
C. Grounded theory
D. Symbolic Interaction
Answer: B. Phenomenology
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, Question 5: Ethnographers strive to do which of the following?
A. Understand human cultures
B. Develop an etic perspective
C. Link the etic and emic perspectives into a unified whole
D. Understand the essence of a phenomenon
Answer: A. Understand human cultures
Question 6: An ethnographic study of a clinic that specialized in abortion services by someone from
outside that culture would most likely be an example of which of the following?
A. An auto-ethnography
B. A critical ethnography
C. A microethnography
D. A macroethnography
Answer: C. A microethnography
Question 7: Which of the following is a step in descriptive phenomenology? Select all that apply.
A. Bracketing
B. Inferring
C. Analyzing
D. Describing
Answer: A, C, D
Question 8: A study that focused on the meaning of sacrifice among wounded military personnel
during war time would likely use which of the following?
A. A descriptive phenomenological approach
B. A grounded theory approach
C. An ethnography
D. A hermeneutic approach
Answer: D. A hermeneutic approach
Question 9: Participant observation is a data collection strategy used in almost all of which of the
following?
A. Ethnographic studies
B. Case studies
C. Phenomenological studies
D. Descriptive qualitative studies
Answer: A. Ethnographic studies
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