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A researcher wants to understand the shared practices and meanings of a community by spending sustained time observing its members in their everyday setting. Which qualitative approach best fits this aim?
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5 Qualitative Research Methods Online Quiz Questions
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20 questions
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True or false
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True or false: Conducting interviews by itself determines that a qualitative study is phenomenological.
- A
True
- B
False
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Written response
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A study of first-year nurses recruits only nurses who are currently in their first year of practice. Which sampling strategy is being used? Enter the strategy’s name.
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To keep observation notes analytically clear, record about who did what, where, and when separately from .
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A researcher wants comparable interview topics while still being able to ask participants to elaborate on unexpected relevant experiences. Which interview format best supports this aim?
- A
A fixed sequence of questions that permits no follow-up
- B
A casual conversation without prepared questions
- C
A guide of open-ended questions with room for follow-up
- D
A survey that uses only numerical response scales
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A researcher is checking whether an interpretation is well supported by the study’s evidence. Which two actions directly strengthen credibility?
- A
Compare accounts from different sources or perspectives
- B
Use a fixed sample-size rule regardless of the research question
- C
Examine cases that challenge an emerging interpretation
- D
Describe the setting so readers can judge relevance elsewhere
07
True or false
1 point
True or false: Reaching saturation means every qualitative study should recruit the same fixed number of participants.
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True
- B
False
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Written response
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A researcher labels meaningful portions of interview data so those portions can be compared across accounts. What is this process called?
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Fill in the blank
1 point
In thematic analysis, a theme is an that helps answer the research question, rather than simply a topic mentioned repeatedly.
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A researcher is planning interviews about a sensitive workplace experience. Which three steps are consistent with the ethical practices described for research involving people?
- A
Explain the study accessibly and obtain voluntary informed consent
- B
Protect confidentiality and store recordings and transcripts securely
- C
Require participants to remain in the study once they have enrolled
- D
Ensure participants can decline or withdraw without pressure
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A researcher’s main goal is to develop an explanation of how people navigate a social process, building that explanation from systematically gathered and analyzed data. Which approach is the best fit?
- A
Phenomenology
- B
Grounded theory
- C
Ethnography
- D
Case study
12
Open ended
1 point
A team wants to understand how new nurses decide whether to ask colleagues for help. Describe a coherent qualitative design by naming an approach, explaining whom to recruit, proposing a data-collection method, and outlining how analysis could develop alongside data collection.
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1 point
A researcher investigates how one school implemented a new support program, examining the program within the school’s organizational context. Which approach best matches this bounded, in-depth focus?
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Grounded theory, because the aim is to generate an explanation of a social process
- B
Phenomenology, because the aim is to examine a shared lived experience
- C
Ethnography, because the aim is to examine a group’s culture through sustained observation
- D
Case study, because the aim is to explore one bounded organization in depth and in context
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A team wants to learn how first-generation students interpret belonging on campus, using detailed accounts rather than estimating how common belonging is. Which feature makes qualitative research appropriate for this question?
- A
Estimating how common an experience is across a statistically representative population
- B
Understanding how people interpret experiences and the meanings they give them
- C
Testing whether a measured variable causes a numerical change
- D
Predicting outcomes from a large dataset
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A researcher investigates how one named after-school program operates within its local context, drawing on several kinds of evidence. Which qualitative approach best fits this bounded inquiry?
- A
Ethnography, because the focus is necessarily on the practices of a culture through sustained observation
- B
Case study, because the program is a bounded case being explored in depth and in context
- C
Grounded theory, because the aim is necessarily to develop a theory of a social process
- D
Phenomenology, because every study of an organization investigates a shared lived experience
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A researcher wants participants to describe how they decided whether to seek help. Which interview question is the most neutral and likely to invite a detailed account?
- A
“You found it difficult to ask for help, didn't you?”
- B
“Was it difficult to ask for help?”
- C
“How did you decide whether to ask for help?”
- D
“Would you agree that asking for help is important?”
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A study seeks a range of new nurses’ experiences and deliberately recruits nurses from different clinical settings and shifts. Which sampling strategy best describes this plan?
- A
Recruit only participants who meet one narrowly defined condition
- B
Ask participants already enrolled to refer people they know
- C
Select participants who differ on important characteristics, such as clinical setting or shift
- D
Choose additional participants only when emerging analysis identifies a need for further investigation
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True or false
1 point
In qualitative research, saturation is a universal fixed numerical threshold that determines the appropriate sample size for every study.
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True
- B
False
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Written response
1 point
Which trustworthiness criterion concerns whether readers can judge if findings may be useful in another context?
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Written response
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A researcher explains a study accessibly, obtains voluntary informed consent, and makes clear that participants can decline or withdraw without pressure. Which ethical principle is most directly respected?