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Chapter 13: Analyzing Nonnumerical Data
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. ______ is a method of data management whereby the analyst attempts to simplify observations by way of assigning them to conceptually or theoretically relevant categories
A. Coding
B. Memoing
C. Deductive coding
D. Inductive coding
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Coding
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. ______ involves the researcher coming to the data with a well-specified or predefined set of interests.
A. Coding
B. Memoing
C. Deductive coding
D. Inductive coding
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Deductive Approaches
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Ted’s research on video pornography involves ______ because he has a predefined interest in sexually violent behavior.
A. coding
B. memoing
C. deductive coding
D. inductive coding
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Deductive Approaches
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. ______ generally begins with the identification of general themes and ideas that emerge from a very literal reading of the data.
A. Coding
B. Memoing
C. Deductive coding
D. Inductive coding
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Inductive Approaches
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. Sean is transcribing interviews with car salespeople to identify themes and later refine specific codes. This is ______.
A. coding
B. memoing
C. deductive coding
D. inductive coding
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Inductive Approaches
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. ______ allows us to record and reflect upon the observations and insights accrued through the research and coding process.
A. Coding
B. Memoing
C. Deductive coding
D. Inductive coding
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Memoing
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. Annaliese is making ______ by placing sticky notes near coded content to make sense of the codes later.
A. codes
B. annotations
C. deductive codes
D. inductive codes
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Memoing
Difficulty Level: Hard
8. We often memo by placing ______, in the form of margin or sticky notes.
A. codes
B. annotations
C. deductive codes
D. inductive codes
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Memoing
Difficulty Level: Hard
9. ______ is a method of organizing coded material that involves placing similarly thematically coded information into relational categories.
B. Coding
C. Opening coding
D. Typological analysis
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Typologies
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. ______ is a computer-assisted data analysis software that assists with transcription analysis, coding, and text interpretation.
A. GeoData
B. Qualitative data analysis (QDA) software
C. NVivo
D. Google Research
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software
Difficulty Level: Easy
11. Google Maps is what kinds of computer-assisted qualitative data analysis?
A. GeoData
B. Qualitative data analysis (QDA) software
C. NVivo
D. Google Research
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Selecting a Software Package
Difficulty Level: Easy
12. A ______ in NVivo allows us to work more efficiently and effectively both alone and in team environments by having all material related to a project in one central location.
A. project folder
B. project file
C. team file
D. team folder
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Project Planning and Organization
Difficulty Level: Easy
13. According to your text all the below files can be stored in NVivo EXCEPT ______.
A. digital copies of relevant literature
B. typologies
C. project organizational material
D. research data and observations
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Project Planning and Organization
Difficulty Level: Easy
14. Storing data in rows and columns such as in Excel or SPSS is referred to as storing information in ______ form.
A. list
B. tabular
C. spreadsheet
D. t shape
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Coding Static Attributes Through Classifications
Difficulty Level: Easy
15. ______ is a search of a specific word or concept which appears the most often in any textual data.
A. Word frequency query
B. Word search
C. Text search
D. Key-word-in-context (KWIC) analyses
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Queries and Word Frequency Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
16. ______ facilities allow you to quickly find and retrieve all the places in your data (including our memos and annotations) where particular words, phrases, concepts, ideas, or themes are present or intersect with one another.
A. Word frequency query
B. Word search
C. Text search
D. Key-word-in-context (KWIC) analyses
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Queries and Word Frequency Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
17. ______ allows you to do a word or phrase search and displays the results in the context of several words before and after it.
A. Word frequency query
B. Word search
C. Text search
D. Key-word-in-context (KWIC) analyses
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Queries and Word Frequency Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
18. ______ is a diagram that displays the hierarchical relationships among coded content are another useful way to visualize patterns in our data.
A. Pattern map
B. NTree
C. Tree Map
D. NVivo Maps
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Analysis Through Visualizations
Difficulty Level: Easy
19. ______ allows for directly importing the content of websites into NVivo.
A. NCapture
B. NSites
C. NSync
D. NPort
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Working with Data
Difficulty Level: Easy
20. Elsa would like to import Twitter data into NVivo to analyze comments related to the latest U.S. presidential election. What tool does she need to do this?
A. NCapture
B. NSites
C. NSync
D. NPort
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Working With Data
Difficulty Level: Medium
21. NVivo codes can be created in several different ways within the program including all EXCEPT ______.
A. a priori based on our identification of factual, thematic, or theoretically relevant ideas
B. in process based on our reading of the data
C. an SPSS classification coding system
D. in vivo using the exact phrasing of our participants
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Labeling Nonnumeric Data Through Codes
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. The authors list two reasons for their NVivo preference what are they?
A. price; user friendliness
B. Does not require prior knowledge; wealth of tutorial material
C. Wealth of tutorial material; price
D. No other viable option; user friendliness
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: A Final Note on User Friendliness
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. When we use one data source to complement and expand on the analysis of another it is referred to as the ______.
A. convergent
B. sequential
C. concurrent
D. comparative
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Analysis of Data From Mixed Methods Research
Difficulty Level: Easy
24. When we use the results of our analysis of one type of data to inform or shape how we go about analyzing the second form of data, it is referred to as the ______.
A. convergent
B. sequential
C. concurrent
D. comparative
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Analysis of Data Fom Mixed Methods Research
Difficulty Level: Easy
25. A ______ approach is where we merge the two forms of data into a single data set in order to compare the results.
A. convergent
B. sequential
C. concurrent
D. comparative
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Analysis of Data From Mixed Methods Research
Difficulty Level: Easy
True/False
1. Inductive coding is often referred to as open coding.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Inductive Approaches
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Typological analysis is sometimes referred to as cluster analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Typologies
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Nvivo is a superior software program in all respects to all others at present.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Selecting a Software Package
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. The basic labelling unit in Nvivo is referred to as a code.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Labeling Nonnumeric Data Through Codes
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. Codes cannot be disaggregated.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Labeling Nonnumeric Data Through Codes
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Tree maps are another useful way to visualize patterns in our data.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Analysis Through Visualizations
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. Nvivo is not user friendly.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: A Final Note on User Friendliness
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. There are analytical techniques developed specifically for the concurrent analysis of qualitative and quantitative data.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Analysis of Data From Mixed Methods Research
Difficulty Level: Easy
Short Answer
1. Summarize the idea of memoing and discuss its importance in relation to coding.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Memoing
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Compare and contrast deductive and inductive approaches and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches. Also discuss when one (or both) approaches should be used.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Deductive Approaches | Inductive Approaches
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Summarize computer-based analyses and discuss the drawbacks and advantages to the use of computer-based analyses.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Discuss the use of NVivo for social and health research.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Using NVivo for Social and Health Research
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Summarize and compare the three framework approaches for the analysis of mixed nonnumerical data.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Analysis of Data From Mixed Methods Research
Difficulty Level: Medium
Essay
1. Your research advisor has requested that you review NVivo as a tool for file/data management and project management for an intergenerational interview project in your research lab. Detail all the benefits and potential drawbacks for adopting NVivo in the lab.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Using NVivo for Social and Health Research
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. Choose a movie, play, book, or TV series for a content analysis. Determine the following for this analysis:
- research question
- independent and dependent variable
- operationalization of the variables
- coding approach (Deductive, Inductive, or Mixed)
- computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software
- Materials you will use
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Coding and Memoing
Difficulty Level: Hard
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