exam qs

• good practice when using qualitative data?

  data must be reduced only during the analysis stage
• relativism assumes that knowledge is a product of?

  social interaction
• qualitative data collection methods need to be?

  bottom up and participant led
• qualitative data interpretation - making sense of the data
• qualitative research sampling adequacy is assessed by

  • thematic saturation
• paradigms encompass assumptions of??

  epistemology

  methodology

  ontology
• one disadvantage of a psychometric test is that if cannot understand ...?

  changes in mood
• psychometric that measures the theoretical concept that it is designed to test has __________ validity?

  construct
• looking for predictor variables: look in the standardised beta coeffecient
• methods to check the number of factors underlying data

  • the kaiser-guttman rule
  • checking the scree plot
  • horns parallel analysis