Answer the following questions and explain your answer or do what is required
1. What kind of data is collected in qualitative research?
It’s verbal data 2. What kind of data is collected in quantitative research? It’snumerical data 3. How is data collected in qualitative research? Data are taken from many different source, but each source is in a small number. Therefore, differentdata collection instruments are used. 4. What is meant with human instrument? The instuments used by the researchers themselves 5. What is the strength of human instrument? When the subject do not understand the questions raised by researcher, an explanation can be offered by the reseacher to clarify the questions 6. What is meant with snowballing technique? A techique that finding from one cycle is reconstructed based on the finding from the following cycles and on until the finding does not need to be recontructed and becomes the final conclusion 7. Can generalization be drawn in qualitative research? No, it can not. Because in qualitative research, the source selected is the most authoriative, so the concern is not the generalization of the finding but the transferability of the finding to another setting or to other subject 8. How can qualitative researchers get the right source of data? the researcher uses the result of interview and questionnaire. In qualitative research, the result of interview can be used as the strongest source to get the information 9. What is the difference between focusing on the process and focusing on the product? The main difference between a process and a product is that the process is a set of steps that guide the project to achieve a convenient product.. Product is the final production of the project. While the process is a set of sequence steps that have to be followed to create a project. 10. What is meant with inductive analysis? A conclusion based on data obtained from the members of a community with the highest authority can be applied to any other member of community 11. What is meant with natural setting? Information is gathered by talking directly to people and seeing them act directly in a natural context 12. Why do qualitative researchers collect data from natural setting? This means qualitative researchers study things as they are. ... Rather than removing people from their settings, qualitative researchers go to the people, allowing for the gathering of sensory data: what is seen, felt, heard, and even tasted or smelled 13. What does circular procedure in qualitative research mean? procedures used in qualitative research are repetitive or circular 14. Mention some methods used in qualitative research There are a variety of methods of data collection in qualitative research, including observations, textual or visual analysis (eg from books or videos) and interviews (individual or group). However, the most common methods used, particularly in healthcare research, are interviews and focus groups 15. What is the difference between a case study and a qualitative study? In case study, a real-time phenomenon is explored within its naturally occurring context, with the consideration that context will create a difference, while in qualitative research, case study is one of the frequently used methodologies.