Applied Qualitative Research Practice Questions
Course Introduction
Applied Qualitative Research introduces students to the principles and practices of qualitative inquiry within academic and professional settings. The course covers essential methods such as interviews, focus groups, participant observation, and document analysis, emphasizing how to design, conduct, analyze, and present qualitative research projects. Students will learn to formulate research questions suitable for qualitative methods, apply coding and thematic analysis techniques, address ethical considerations, and interpret findings in applied contexts. Through hands-on assignments and real-world case studies, the course equips learners with practical skills to generate rich, nuanced insights and informs evidence-based decision-making in fields such as education, healthcare, social sciences, and public policy.
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Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences 8th Edition by Bruce L. Berg
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) The goal of Berg's book is to ________.
A) provide basic training for new researchers
B) create a research "cookbook" for qualitative methods
C) deliver advanced concepts in quantitative research
D) teach readers how to take charge of a research project
Answer: A
Q2) When observing from three known points of view, the area where all three lines of sight intersect is called the ________.
A) multiple operationalism
B) convergent validation
C) line of action
D) triangle of error
Answer: D
Q3) What type of concept does qualitative research measure?
A) Description
B) Measure
C) Extent
D) Distribution
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Designing Qualitative Research
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Q1) Explain why operational definitions can be crucial to a research design, or not required. Defend your answer.
Answer: An operational definition makes the meaning intended by the concept in your study concrete. It also creates criteria for empirically measuring the concept investigated. Several definitions can exist in the research and literature review, as long as readers know which definition you're using in the current paper. The operational definition is used to define how your concept will be identified and measured. For less tangible qualities, it can be used to create a list of observable qualities that are associated with the definition of the concept. An operational definition is crucial to most qualitative research because failure to define concepts will make results meaningless. Another researcher could not reproduce your research. It would be unclear where in the existing body of work your research fits, and explanations would lack concrete meaning. The only time that an operational definition would not be required is in interpretive, or phenomenological, research where the researcher attempts to discover naturally arising meanings among members of the study population.
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Chapter 3: Ethical Issues
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Q1) What are several ways a researcher could increase success of debriefing for studies conducted over the Internet?
Answer: In Internet research, the researcher lacks the face-to-face connection that allows him/her to see when a subject is becoming upset or agitated. As such, debriefing subjects to mitigate harmful effects becomes more important. However, over the Internet, it is difficult to tell when a technical difficulty or boredom can separate the participant from the study at any point. To improve success debriefing, the researcher can obtain the respondent's e-mail address at the beginning of the study to e-mail a debriefing, or include a prominently displayed link on all pages that automatically links to a debriefing page when clicked. The researcher can also provide his/her e-mail address at the beginning of the study for questions and concerns, or direct respondents to a chat room for live debriefing after the close of the study.
Q2) A new ethical risk posed by Internet research is ________.
A) great geographical reach
B) 24-hour data collection
C) anonymity of subjects
D) difficulty in screening age of participants
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: A Dramaturgical Look at Interviewing
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Q1) What are several ways to begin data analysis?
Q2) Describe the advantages and disadvantages inherent in telephone interviewing.
Q3) The care that an interviewer takes to prepare actions, lines, roles, and routines in advance of the interview to put forth a specific planned appearance to the person is called _________.
A) researcher reactivity
B) self-conscious performance
C) social interpretations
D) full-channel communication
Q4) When a researcher uses visual cues to evaluate respondent reaction to questions and types data into a laptop, it is called ________.
A) Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI)
B) Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI)
C) Web-Based In-Depth Interviewing
D) Email-Based In-Depth Interviewing
Q5) What considerations should an interviewer keep in mind to create a question order for the interview?
Q6) How can a novice interviewer begin to establish an interviewer repertoire?
Q7) Why is the interviewer repertoire so important?
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Chapter 5: Focus Group Interviewing
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Q1) Which is NOT a disadvantage of online focus groups?
A) Loss of role and authority of the moderator
B) Loss of atmosphere arising during in-person focus group
C) Ability to effectively use group dynamics as integral part of process
D) Loss of attentiveness on topic being discussed by group
Q2) Which technique is the most effective at obtaining a great amount of detail about various content information?
A) Focus groups
B) Unobtrusive measures
C) Face-to-face interviewing
D) Participant observation
Q3) When several members of the group jump on board for a particular idea or series of comments about a given idea, attitude, or belief as a result of subgroup pressure, this is called __________.
A) peer pressure
B) moderation
C) synergistic group effect
D) group think
Q4) Compare and contrast focus group interviewing and face-to-face interviewing.
Q5) Compare and contrast focus group interviewing and participant observation.
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Chapter 6: Ethnographic Field Strategies
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Q1) When researchers take care not to impose their own views or take any stands on social or political issues, but to study the world as an external investigator, this is called
A) value-neutral position
B) reflectivity
C) positivism
D) critical perspective
Q2) A description that reveals aspects of a research subject by comparing it to other subjects in order to help the researcher see things a different way is called
A) typology
B) sociogram
C) metaphor
D) nomination
Q3) Why do social scientists recognize that research is seldom value-neutral? When is it important for the researcher to stop being value-neutral?
Q4) Explain researcher concerns during the "getting in" phase of research.
Q5) Why is reflectivity important to ethnography?
Q6) What are subjective versus external motivating factors for research?
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Chapter 7: Action Research
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Q1) Which is NOT a characteristic common to action research?
A) Collaboration
B) Independence
C) Reflection
D) Participation
Q2) When is action research a good fit, and when should action research not be used?
Q3) In action research, the researcher seeks to produce change, which requires meetings with participants at all phases of the research process. One technique an investigator can use to keep stakeholders informed is spontaneous meetings that form in response to particular circumstances or issues. These are called ___________.
A) focus groups
B) in-group forums
C) informal meetings
D) agency
Q4) What is the role of the action researcher?
Q5) What are the characteristics of action research that allow it to be utilized in classrooms, schools, hospitals, justice agencies, and community contexts?
Q6) What are the goals of photo voice?
Q7) What is photovoice, and how does it fit in with past trends in ethnography?
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Chapter 8: Unobtrusive Measures in Research
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Q1) Any type of written, drawn, or recorded (video or audio) materials produced for general or mass consumption is called ___________. Examples include newspapers, books, magazines, television program transcripts, videotapes, comics, maps, and blogs.
A) private archives
B) commercial media accounts
C) actuarial records
D) official documentary records
Q2) What is the diary method, and what are the advantages to using it?
Q3) Which research technique must researchers be sure to employ to corroborate data obtained unobtrusively?
A) Science of garbology
B) Covert observations
C) Triangulation
D) Coding
Q4) Define official documentary records, and provide an example of their use as an unobtrusive data source.
Q5) Define unobtrusive research, and explain how it works.
Q6) What ethical concern do researchers need to be aware of when using unobtrusive data?
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Chapter 9: Social Historical Research and Oral Traditions
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Q1) Which term attempts to systematically recapture the complex nuances, the people, meanings, events, and ideas of the past that have shaped the present?
A) Nostalgia
B) Historical research
C) Historiography
D) History
Q2) When researchers are using primary source materials, they first must determine if the document or artifact is authentic and valid. What is this process called?
A) External criticism
B) Internal criticism
C) Analysis
D) Identification
Q3) An archival Web site that offers social histories of people who were born into slavery is called __________.
A) Internet Archive
B) Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project
C) What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?
D) Hogan Jazz Archive
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Chapter 10: Case Studies
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Q1) A case study requires a deep and full examination of the case through ___________.
A) only primary sources
B) multiple methods and/or sources
C) deep detailed interviewing
D) only secondary and tertiary sources
Q2) What are several reasons that a theory-before-research model can be useful when conducting case studies?
Q3) Which researcher quality indicates that the researcher is willing to ask questions before, during, and after data collection to determine the true reasons the event is happening?
A) Inquiring mind
B) Ability to listen and sense
C) Understanding of the issues
D) Unbiased interpretation
Q4) What are the five researcher skills associated with conducting good case studies?
Q5) What is a community case study, and how does it work?
Q6) What are several reasons that a case study to generate theory or a theory after research model can be useful?
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Chapter 11: An Introduction to Content Analysis
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Q1) What are the similarities and differences between the inductive and deductive approach to building grounded theory, and can they work together?
Q2) Which is a way to treat social action and human activity as text to allow for determining the practical understandings of meanings and actions as symbols?
A) Content analysis
B) Interpretative approaches
C) Social anthropological approaches
D) Collaborative approaches
Q3) Which term describes the actual terms used by individuals under investigation that represent their behavioral processes?
A) Ideological stances
B) Sociological constructs
C) In vivo codes
D) Communication themes
Q4) What are the advantages and disadvantages of content analysis?
Q5) When a researcher is trying to explain the latent symbolic meaning found in research, what corroborative techniques can he/she use to strengthen the argument?
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Chapter 12: Writing Research Papers: Sorting the Noodles from the Soup
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Q1) What is plagiarism, and what actions make up plagiarism?
Q2) Which section of a research paper provides a comprehensive overview of previous works on the general and specific topics considered in the study?
A) Title
B) Abstract
C) Introduction
D) Literature review
Q3) Which is NOT a reason that plagiarism occurs?
A) The source said it better than I could have
B) Writing ideas created from reading a text
C) Running out of time
D) Writing from notes and unable to distinguish original thought from text
Q4) Which writing pitfall limits your comments to very current observations and documentation, or obsolete past periods?
A) Date stamping
B) Passive voice
C) Vague referrals
D) Long run-on sentences
Q5) How should sources referenced in a paper be reported?
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