Deck 22: Qualitative Data Analysis

Question 1

What is the first major step that a nurse researcher must undertake in a qualitative analysis?

A) A search for major themes
B) Entering information into files
C) The use of quasi-statistics
D) Developing a system for organizing and indexing the data

Answer 1

Developing a system for organizing and indexing the data

Question 2

Before the advent of computer programs for qualitative analysis, what was the main procedure for managing qualitative data?

A) Conceptual files
B) Core categories
C) Memos
D) Themes

Answer 2

Conceptual files

Question 3

What does the actual analysis of data usually begin with?

A) A search for major themes
B) Entering information into files
C) The use of quasi-statistics
D) Developing a system for organizing and indexing the data

Answer 3

A search for major themes

Question 4

Some qualitative analysts use figurative comparisons to evoke a visual and symbolic analogy. What is this called?

A) Themes
B) Categories
C) Metaphors
D) Quasi-statistics

Question 5

What does the process of constant comparison involve?

A) Comparing two researchers' interpretation of the data
B) Comparing the researchers' interpretation of the data against study participants'interpretation
C) Comparing data segments against other segments for similarity
D) Comparing data from the study with data and categories from other similar studies

Question 6

What is quasi-statistics?

A) Statistical analysis
B) Validation
C) Thematic generation
D) Analytic induction

Question 7

One approach to analyzing ethnographic data is Spradley's method, which involves how many levels of data analysis?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4

Question 8

What type of analysis uncovers cultural themes?

A) Domain
B) Taxonomic
C) Componential
D) Theme

Question 9

What type of analysis compares and contrasts terms in a domain?

A) Domain
B) Taxonomic
C) Componential
D) Theme

Question 10

What type of analysis selects key domains and constructs systems of classification?

A) Domain
B) Taxonomic
C) Componential
D) Theme

Question 11

Leininger and McFarland provided ethnographers with a four-phase ethno nursing data analysis guide. What is the first phase?

A) Collecting and recording data
B) Categorizing descriptors
C) Searching for repetitive patterns
D) Abstracting major themes

Question 12

In Van Manen's approach, this involves efforts to grasp the essential meaning of the experience being studied, researchers search for themes. What is the holistic approach?

A) Find common patterns of experiences shared by particular instances.
B) Viewing text as a whole.
C) Pulling out key statements and phrases.
D) Analyzing every sentence in the analysis

Question 13

Central to analyzing data in a hermeneutic study is the notion of the hermeneutic circle. What is a hermeneutic circle?

A) Find common patterns of experiences shared by particular instances.
B) Continual movement between the parts and the whole of the text.
C) Pulling out key statements and phrases.
D) Analyzing every sentence in the analysis

Question 14

Hermeneutics has several choices for data analysis. One approach is the discovery of a pattern that expresses the relationships among themes. What is this pattern called?

A) Constitutive
B) Constant comparison
C) Similarity comparison
D) Dissimilarity comparison

Question 15

Benner offers another analytic approach for hermeneutic phenomenology. The interpretative analysis consists of how many interrelated processes?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4

Question 16

One approach to grounded theory is the Glaser and Strauss (Glaserian) method, in which there are two broad types of codes. What is theoretical code?

A) Empirical substance of the topic is conceptualized.
B) Relationships among the substantive codes are conceptualized.
C) Capture what is going on in the data.
D) Only variables relating to a core category are coded.

Question 17

Substantive coding involves open coding. What is open coding?

A) Empirical substance of the topic is conceptualized.
B) Relationships among the substantive codes are conceptualized.
C) Capture what is going on in the data.
D) Only variables relating to a core category are coded.

Question 18

Substantive coding involves selective coding. What is selective coding?

A) Empirical substance of the topic Is conceptualized.
B) Relationships among the substantive codes are conceptualized.
C) Capture what is going on in the data.
D) Only variables relating to a core category are coded.

Question 19

What are level III codes in the Glaser and Strauss approach?

A) Axial codes
B) In vivo codes
C) Open codes
D) Theoretical constructs

Question 20

Strauss and Corbin's method is an alternative grounded theory method whose outcome is a full preconceived conceptual description. What is an axial code?

A) Categories are generated.
B) Categories are linked with subcategories.
C) Findings are integrated.
D) Findings are refined.