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Question 1

Trustworthiness of Qualitative Data

Answer 1

1. Credibility
2. Dependability
3. Confirmability = are conclusions the result of phenomenon not biased opinions
4. Transferability = detailed description of the setting or group under study so readers can judge for whether personally relevant.

Question 2

1. Credibility

Answer 2

= conclusions “ring true” for the people studied … participants will react like this to the study’s findings “Yeah, that’s right, but I hadn’t thought about it in that way.”

Question 3

2. Dependability

Answer 3

= External checks must make the researcher’s process
trackable – i.e., an outsider must be able to see how a researcher went from point A to point B to point C in the interpretive process.

Question 4

3. Confirmability

Answer 4

are conclusions the result of phenomenon not biased opinions

Question 5

4. Transferability

Answer 5

detailed description of the setting or group under study so readers can judge for whether personally relevant.

Question 6

How to enhance rigour (thoroughness)

- Reflexivity

Answer 6

-• Reflexivity - being aware of impact of researchers’ attitudes, their power
and influence; accounting for mistakes and insights
• Member checking or respondent validation
• Peer review of data analysis / consensus coding
• Triangulation (e.g., data sources, sites, types of data, data analysts)

Question 7

How to enhance rigour (thoroughness)

- field notes

Answer 7

• Field notes: record observations and describe aspects of the field impacting data collection (e.g., interruptions, dominant informants in a focus group)
• Memos: make notes to aid data analysis by recording your thoughts and ideas (e.g., comparisons, depth of feeling in response to a topic, novel ideas prompted by reflection of one or more transcripts, ways of representing your findings).

Question 8

What is content analysis

Answer 8

Is form of analysis appied to content of documents and other written form of communications to identify concepts and categories.

Question 9

Manifest content

Answer 9

analysis of what the text says deals with the content aspect and describes the visible, obvious components of the data

Question 10

Latent Content

Answer 10

analysis of what the text talks about deals with the relationship aspect and involves an interpretation of the underlying meaning of the text

Question 11

Process of content analysis

Answer 11

Meaning units→ Condensed meaning units→ codes→ sub-categories→ categories→ themes