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1. what is qualitative research?
,2. participants
(informants)
3. key informants
4. snowball sampling
5. data saturation
6. what are the four
essential elements of
evaluation?
7. credibility
8. transferability
9. dependability
10. confirmability
11. persistent observation
, focuses on words to understand and given meaning to a phenomenon or event
- more inductive and useful to answer descriptive and explanatory questions
individuals in the study
individuals who have intimate knowledge of a subject and are willing to share with researcher
recruitment of participants based on word of mouth or referrals from other participants
no new information is obtained, repetition of info is consistently heard
credibility transferability dependability confirmability
refers to the truth or believability from one study can be transferred to a similar context
relates to whether findings from one study can be transferred to a similar context
findings are reflective of data
relates to the rigorous attempts to be objective and the maintenance of audit trails to document
the research process
when the researcher has spent sufficient quality time with participants while attempting to
describe and capture the essence of the phenomenon
12. peer debriefing a technique in which the researcher enlists the help of another
person, who is a peer, to discuss the data and findings
13. referential adequacy a technique in which multiple sources of data are compared
and the findings hold true