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These questions relate to the following text:

Morse, J. M., Barrett, M., Mayan, M., Olson, K., & Spiers, J. (2002). Verification Strategies for Establishing
Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 1(2), pp. 13-22.

You find it on the Lecture Information & Reading Instructions page or in the files directory.

Please note that the test needs to be completed before the start of the lecture. You need at least 12 points
on this quiz to receive 0.5 bonus points. Not that you only get one attempt!

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LATEST Attempt 1 18 minutes 16 out of 16

Score for this quiz: 16 out of 16

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Question 1 4 / 4 pts

In a sentence, the article discusses if the methodological strategies are

different in different branches of science. You learned about methodology
in the introduction lecture. What is the term for the justification of method
choice (from the introduction lecture)?

Correct! Methodology
 Question 2 4 / 4 pts

Which of these statements correspond to the general view of the authors?

Mark all options that are correct.

Correct! Guba and Lincoln's idea of evaluating "trustworthiness" should be replaced

Correct! It's problematic that goals, criteria and standards are used interchangeably

This question is about Guba and Lincoln's view, which the authors of the
article suggests should be replaced.

Question 3 4 / 4 pts

You have done a study investigating how car owners' behavior when parking
is affected by the size of the parking spots. In your report you include a list of
the decisions made in the project, such as choosing several sites in different
parts of the city and including parking spots too small for most cars. Keeping
a list of the decisions is an example of an audit trail . After your research you
analyzed the data and saw that the larger cars people had, the less likely they
were to respect the lines marking the parking spots. You made notes of the
 licence plates of the cars, and contact them afterwards, letting them state if
they recognize themselves in this conclusion. Letting the participants state if
they think the result of the study applies to them is an example of

. They do not, and you include this in your

report. Including the car owners evaluations and the list of your decisions

helps with increasing the

Answer 1:

Correct! audit trail

Answer 2:

Correct! member checks

Answer 3:

Correct! a post-hoc evaluation

Answer 4:

Correct! trustworthiness

This question is about the authors' view of how social science should be
evaluated for quality.

Question 4 4 / 4 pts

You are conducting a study into the social behavior of people playing online
games, and you want to ensure reliability and validity during your research.
Specifically you are interested in learning more about gamers' attitudes
towards dating and romantic life. Your original idea was to visit internet cafés
 and interview the visitors. However, after a few visits you realize that most
visitors to the café are pre-teens or in their early teens with little romantic
experience at all. You therefore decide to change your method to better suit
your research questions - this is called methodological coherence .

Your new sampling method involves interacting in-game with players, inviting
them to take part in a free-response survey, which follows a few introductory
questions where players state their preferred games and age. You can thus
exclude people who are too young or not experienced in gaming, which

means making sure .

During the duration of the survey, you monitor the responses and consider
what is known given your current data and what needs to be known still (

. Based on the data you form the new idea

that gamers from Germany have a different attitude towards meeting on-line
friends in person than people from other countries. You keep track of this
trend in the new data and use this idea to give rise to new ideas -

Answer 1:

Correct! methodological coherence

Answer 2:

Correct! your sample is appropriate

Answer 3:

Correct! collecting and analyzing data concurrently

Answer 4:

Correct! thinking theoretically

Quiz score: out of 16