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Qualitative Research & Stats
Final Exam for Research Methods class- Counseling/Education
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Graduate
04/27/2010

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Term
Qualitative Sampling Methods
Definition

Comprehensive-everyone in the category

Theoretical-choosing people until saturation

Snowball/Chain/Network

Maximum Variation-seeking those who think differently

Homogeneous

Typical Case

Extreme or deviant-those who had the most negative or positve experiences

Critical Case-intense or irregular cases(Brandon Teena)

Criterion- meet the criteria

Convenience

Term
Curve Percentages
Definition

34%

14%

2%

.1%

Term
Types of graphs
Definition

Bar graphs-used for discrete variables like sex, religion

Histograms-continuous variables-bars touch

Frequency polygon (like stock market)

Stem and leaf plots (histograms turned on side)

Box and whisker plots

Curves

Term
Qualitative Research
Definition

Naturalistic

Info rich

Inductive

Research questions, not hypotheses guide study

Purposive sampling

Looking to describe experience, phenomena, and generate theory

Term
Types of interview questions
Definition

Knowledge

Behavior or experience

Opinion or value

Feeling

Sensory (5 senses)

Background/demographic questions

 

Term
Positive skew
Definition
right skew, lots of low scores
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ETHNOGRAPHY
Definition
Purpose: To describe, analyze and interpret a cultural groups patterns of behavior, beliefs and language.Group can center around ethnicity, geogrphy, religion or shared experiences. Immersion and prologed engagement.
Term
Negative skew
Definition

skewed left, lots of high scores

mean<median<mode

Term
EMPIRICAL STUDIES
Definition
Reports of original research that include intro, method, results and discussion
Term
Interview Types
Definition

unstructured-can resemble a casual conversation

 

semi-structured-prepared questions that may change

 

structured-all questions planned. each participant asked same questions, often in same sequence

Term
Experimental study
Definition

Random assignment

manipulation

control

Term
Case study
Definition
an in-depth exploration of a bounded system(activity, event, process or individual) based on extensive data collection
Term
Phenomology
Definition
Purpose: To determine the meaning, structure or essence of a particular phenomemon.In depth interviews.Experience.
Term
Grounded theory
Definition
Purpose: to generate theory based on data collected. Inductive process using categorization
Term
Non-experimental designs
Definition

Correlational

Regression

Ex post facto

Term
Correlation
Definition
designated by Pearson R, on a scale of -1 to +1. Positive number indicates a positive correlation.
Term
Degrees of freedom
Definition
N-2
Term
Percent of variance
Definition
R squared
Term
ANOVA
Definition
Analysis of varianace. Used to answer the question "is there a difference among group means.Used in designs with a singleindependant variable and a single dependant variable.Better than multiple t-tests.
Term
ANCOVA
Definition
Analysis of covariance. Combines ANOVA and regression.Used when ANOVA is thought to be too biased.
Term
Type 1 Error
Definition
When the null should have been accepted but was rejected (NAZI)
Term
Type 2 error
Definition
When the null hypothesis should have been rejected but was kept
Term
Hypotheses
Definition

Nondirectinal:Predicts a difference will occur

 

Directional: Predicts a difference will occur and whch and direction

 

Null hypothesis

 

Alternative hypothesis

Term
Z Score
Definition

x-mean= Z

SD

Term
T Score
Definition
Z(10)+ 50= T
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Trustworthiness
Definition

Composed of consistency, applicabilty and neutrality.

 

Specifically

•credibility-believeability, assurance that conclusions make sense. Use prolonged engagement and triangulation

 

•transferability

•dependability-involves the consistency of the results over time and across researchers

 

•confirmability

 

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