PRACTICE QUESTIONS
From the lectures
,Paradigms - Sample question
“AIDS does not exist apart from the practices that conceptualise it,
represent it, and respond to it.” (Crimp, 1988, p. 3). This quotation is
associated with which epistemological/theoretical framework?
A. interpretivism
B. positivism
C. constructionism
D. action research
,Quality of research - Sample
question 1
In a study on experiences during a festival, in addition to doing a focu
group, visitors are asked to keep a daily diary about their feelings. Th
approach allows researchers to enhance:
A. transferability
B. credibility
C. confirmability
D. dependability
, Quality of research - Sample
question 2
How will a qualitative researcher respond to the criticism that results from
qualitative research are subjective? (In other words: a different researcher
would have reached a different conclusion?)
A. “Indeed, my results aren’t reliable”
B. “You are wrong, I know that my results are objective because I approached
the research from a neutral perspective”
C. “I have shown which steps I made so that you can estimate to what extent
results are trustworthy.”
D. “You are right, but it’s exactly the aim of qualitative research to be subjecti
From the lectures
,Paradigms - Sample question
“AIDS does not exist apart from the practices that conceptualise it,
represent it, and respond to it.” (Crimp, 1988, p. 3). This quotation is
associated with which epistemological/theoretical framework?
A. interpretivism
B. positivism
C. constructionism
D. action research
,Quality of research - Sample
question 1
In a study on experiences during a festival, in addition to doing a focu
group, visitors are asked to keep a daily diary about their feelings. Th
approach allows researchers to enhance:
A. transferability
B. credibility
C. confirmability
D. dependability
, Quality of research - Sample
question 2
How will a qualitative researcher respond to the criticism that results from
qualitative research are subjective? (In other words: a different researcher
would have reached a different conclusion?)
A. “Indeed, my results aren’t reliable”
B. “You are wrong, I know that my results are objective because I approached
the research from a neutral perspective”
C. “I have shown which steps I made so that you can estimate to what extent
results are trustworthy.”
D. “You are right, but it’s exactly the aim of qualitative research to be subjecti
