week 12 ch.1- qualitative

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Looking for regularities
________________________is analysis. It's the quintessential qualitative act, and it is common to all traditions of scholarship across the humanities and the sciences
regularities
Finding _____________________ is equivalent to confirming thenull hypothesis (accept)
irregularities
Finding _________________ is equivalent to confirming the research hypothesis (reject null)
the analysis of qualitative data"
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"the qualitative analysis of data."
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the same is true for "quantitative data analysis."
qualitative data analysis is
A. Cell A: QL analysis of QL data Using the power of rhetoric to bring meaning to phenomena (interpreting text)

B. Cell B: QL analysis of QN dataDescribing numerical data (what do the numbers mean?)

C. Cell C: QN analysis of QL dataTurning QL data into numbers - counting words etc.

D. Cell D: QN analysis of QN dataMathematical or Statistical analysis
Image: A. Cell A: QL analysis of QL data Using the power of rhetoric to bring meaning to phenomena (interpreting text) B. Cell B: QL analysis of QN dataDescribing numerical data (what do the numbers mean?) C. Cell C: QN analysis of QL dataTurning QL data into numbers - counting words etc. D. Cell D: QN analysis of QN dataMathematical or Statistical analysis
numerical reductions
quantitative
artifacts, sounds, pictures, words
qualitative
the physical residue of people's thoughts, emotions and behavior"Examples: Activity Interest Checklist - Daily journals - postings on social media, etc.
artifact
Chunking experiences into recordable units
how do we create data?
The decision researchers make in the how and what of data collection
human component of science?
A. Positivist (i.e. scientific approach emerged mid 19th century) - Truth and knowledge is absolute and subject to measurement B. Humanistic (AKA post-positivism emerged mid 20th century) - meaning is situated in the human experience C. Positivism tends toward QN data, i.e., numerical data, and Post-positivism (Humanistic) tends toward QL Data, i.e., the interpretation of narratives and text.positivist and humanisticqnpositivismqlhumansticdiscover themes and patterns and build models of systemsExplorationput words to the human experience ~ QL or QNdescriptionidentifying characteristics that individuals or groups do or don't sharecomparisontest hypotheses against observationtesting modelsA. Physical Objects.......Arts & Crafts B. Still Images.........Before &After pictures C. Sounds.......Harder? Patient stories - Playground recordings D. Moving Images - Video - You Tube Videos (is permission to use needed?) E. Texts......Patient written reflections - poems - stories etc.arts and crafts. Physical Objectsbefore ad after picturesstill imagespatient stories--playgorun recordingsounds...harder?youtube videosmoving imagestextspatient written reflections-poems-storiesQualitative data can be analyzed using either quantitative or qualitative methods, and Quantitative data can be analyzed using either quantitative or qualitative methods [the choice is driven by the research question!]Rather than being separate activities QL & QN analysis are in fact highly connected, like the two sides of a coin,Describing the experiences of a group, or more specifically a culture-sharing groupEthnographyUnderstanding the essence of an experience (lived experiencephenomenological researchDeveloping a theory grounded in data obtained from the fieldgrounded theory1.Understanding the life of an individual or organization.narrative research (biographical or historical research)Developing an understanding from in depth analysis of one individual (or multiplecase study research