Qualitative Data Analysis Chapter 14 1st Edition Exam Prep - Complete Test Bank | Research Methods for Social Work 1e by Farmer by Antoinette Y. Farmer. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 14: Qualitative Data Analysis
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. What type of data does qualitative data analysis analyze?
A. numerical
B. symbolic
C. textual
D. reactive
Learning Objective: 14.1: Differentiate between the various qualitative coding strategies.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Qualitative Data Analysis Defined
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Dependability can be established by creating a dependability ______, in which a third party is employed to check the researcher’s work.
A. test
B. trial
C. audit
D. decision
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Criteria for Ensuring the Trustworthiness of the Data
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. The analysis of qualitative data consists of a series of ______.
A. surveys
B. assumptions
C. reactions
D. phases
Learning Objective: 14.1: Differentiate between the various qualitative coding strategies.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Phases of the Qualitative Data Analysis Process
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Which of the following can qualitative data for analysis come from?
A. birthdates
B. favorite numbers
C. interviews
D. shoe sizes
Learning Objective: 14.1: Differentiate between the various qualitative coding strategies.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Coding of the Data
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. All transcriptions and other textual materials need to be read and ______ thoroughly.
A. reread
B. edited
C. summarized
Learning Objective: 14.1: Differentiate between the various qualitative coding strategies.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Coding of the Data
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. The data derived from qualitative research need to be in a form in which it can be ______.
A. beneficial
B. cost-effective
C. altered
D. analyzed
Learning Objective: 14.1: Differentiate between the various qualitative coding strategies.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Coding of the Data
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. ______ coding is the process of developing codes and categories through the close examination of qualitative data.
A. Axial
B. Closed
C. Open
D. Selective
Learning Objective: 14.1: Differentiate between the various qualitative coding strategies.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Coding of the Data
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. ______ coding is the process of making connections among the categories and subcategories that were identified during the open coding process.
A. Axial
B. Closed
C. Selective
Learning Objective: 14.1: Differentiate between the various qualitative coding strategies.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Coding of the Data
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. If one is not interested in developing a theory, what is the final step in the coding process?
A. axial
B. closed
C. open
D. selective
Learning Objective: 14.1: Differentiate between the various qualitative coding strategies.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Coding of the Data
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. Which type of coding would researchers use when they select a story line and relate it to other categories of the research?
A. axial
B. closed
C. open
D. selective
Learning Objective: 14.1: Differentiate between the various qualitative coding strategies.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Coding of the Data
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. Why should a researcher write notes while coding data?
A. to keep their stories straight
B. to maintain documentation of the process
C. to help hide issues related to data collection
D. to document when each researcher is changing the coding labels
Learning Objective: 14.1: Differentiate between the various qualitative coding strategies.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Coding of the Data
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. How might theoretical coding notes help with the coding process?
A. They can assist in interpreting the data.
B. They allow researchers to decide which data to use.
C. They allow for easy removal of outliers.
D. They document the meaning of code labels.
Learning Objective: 14.1: Differentiate between the various qualitative coding strategies.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Coding of the Data
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. Which type of note would a researcher use to acknowledge low turnout due to rain on the day of a focus group?
A. code note
B. theoretical note
C. operational note
D. representational note
Learning Objective: 14.1: Differentiate between the various qualitative coding strategies.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Coding of the Data
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. According to the text, what question should researchers ask themselves when examining data?
A. Who cares?
B. How will we fund this research project?
C. What is the intention or purpose?
D. Where will this research be published?
Learning Objective: 14.1: Differentiate between the various qualitative coding strategies.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Coding of the Data
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. Why is it important to document what time or location a phenomena occurred?
A. It provides context for the research.
B. It is more information to code.
C. Coding more details makes funding sources happy.
D. It provides outliers for the research.
Learning Objective: 14.1: Differentiate between the various qualitative coding strategies.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Coding of the Data
Difficulty Level: Hard
16. Why is grounded theory analysis useful in social work research?
A. It is better funded than other theories.
B. It provides guaranteed income to social work organizations.
C. It allows for deep insights into the behaviors of individuals.
D. It is always less expensive to complete research for than other theories.
Learning Objective: 14.1: Differentiate between the various qualitative coding strategies.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Coding of the Data
Difficulty Level: Hard
17. ______ analysis is defined “as a research method for the subjective interpretation of the content of text data through the systematic classification process of coding and identifying themes or patterns.”
A. Content
B. Consistent
C. Cross-content
D. Cross-consistent
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Types of Qualitative Analyses
Difficulty Level: Easy
18. ______ content analysis is typically used when the aim of the study is to describe the phenomenon under investigation.
A. Conventional
B. Direct
C. Conversational
D. Summative
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Types of Qualitative Analyses
Difficulty Level: Easy
19. In ______ content analysis, the researcher uses theory or prior research to develop the initial codes and operational definitions of the codes.
A. conventional
B. direct
C. conversational
D. summative
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Types of Qualitative Analyses
Difficulty Level: Easy
20. With conventional content analysis, the codes and categories are derived from the ______ data.
A. numerical
B. textual
C. cherry-picked
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Types of Qualitative Analyses
Difficulty Level: Easy
21. In direct content analysis, what happens to text that cannot be categorized with predetermined codes?
A. They are discarded.
B. They are given new codes.
C. They are rewritten.
D. They are put into the closest category match.
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Types of Qualitative Analyses
Difficulty Level: Easy
22. ______ content analysis starts with identifying and quantifying certain words or content in the text with the purpose of understanding the contextual use of the words or content.
A. Conventional
B. Direct
C. Conversational
D. Summative
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Types of Qualitative Analyses
Difficulty Level: Easy
23. When researchers quantify how often the same word was mentioned in the text, this is called ______ content analysis.
A. discourse
B. manifest
C. critical
D. latent
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Types of Qualitative Analyses
Difficulty Level: Easy
24. When researchers read the textual data to determine underlying meanings of the word or the content, this is called ______ content analysis.
A. discourse
B. manifest
C. critical
D. latent
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Types of Qualitative Analyses
Difficulty Level: Easy
25. How many steps are in critical discourse analysis?
A. three
B. five
C. seven
D. nine
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Critical Discourse Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
26. ______ theory analysis is a qualitative analytic approach to analyzing textual data using open, axial, and selective coding.
A. Grounded
B. Thematic
C. Critical
D. Reacting
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Grounded Theory Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
27. ______ analysis involves identifying, analyzing, and reporting patterns (themes) within the data.
A. Grounded
B. Thematic
C. Critical
D. Reacting
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Thematic Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
28. Inclusion of the participants’ quotes in the write-up of the findings is a way to establish ______.
B. reliability
C. confirmability
D. authenticity
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Types of Qualitative Analyses
Difficulty Level: Easy
29. When determining ______, the reader must consider their interpretation or alternative interpretations to the publication.
A. transferability
B. reliability
C. confirmability
D. authenticity
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Types of Qualitative Analyses
Difficulty Level: Easy
30. ______ refers to the “believability” of the study.
A. Truthiness
B. Creditability
C. Reliability
D. Validity
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Types of Qualitative Analyses
Difficulty Level: Medium
True/False
1. To ensure the credibility of your data, you should have more than one person involved in the coding of the data.
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Types of Qualitative Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. The people involved in coding should code the same transcript together in the same room and then discuss the similarities and differences in the coding.
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Types of Qualitative Analyses
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Researchers may inadvertently render their research process unstable by some of the decisions they make while conducting the research.
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Types of Qualitative Analyses
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Dependability can be established by creating a dependability audit, in which a third-party auditor is employed to check the researcher’s work by reviewing the audit trail.
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Types of Qualitative Analyses
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. To establish transferability, examples of the raw data should never be provided in presentations and publications, so the reader can consider their interpretation or alternative interpretations.
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Types of Qualitative Analyses
Difficulty Level: Medium
Short Answer
1. Why does transferability matter?
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Criteria for Ensuring the Trustworthiness of the Data
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. How should interview quotes be handled?
Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the ethical and diversity issues associated with analyzing qualitative data.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Ethics and Qualitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. In order to establish dependability, what would be included in a reflexive journal?
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Types of Qualitative Analysis
Difficulty Level: Hard
4. Why does diversity matter in qualitative data analysis?
Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the ethical and diversity issues associated with analyzing qualitative data.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Ethics and Qualitative Data Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. When establishing transferability, how should the information be presented?
Learning Objective: 14.2: Differentiate between the different types of qualitative analysis.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Criteria for Ensuring the Trustworthiness of the Data
Difficulty Level: Medium
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