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