SOWK 2501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Focus Group, Group Dynamics
19 Jan 2017
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Is collected for a specific purpose (i. e. to be critically analyzed to find answers to research questions) Has been previously published in journals, magazines, newspapers, books, online portals and other sources. Credibility: how believable to findings are and how careful the research is in understanding their own credibility. Transferability: whether the findings can apply to other contexts. Confirmability: the degree to which the results can be confirmed. Have the research participants tell stories in their own words. Gain an understanding of the perspective of the person being interviewed. Learn about a person"s experiences, thoughts and feelings from their point of view. Unstructured: all the possible questions are not known but emerge as the interview progresses. Semi-structured: you go in with a list of questions but you can deviate from them. Structured: involve requesting information through specific questions that are identical for every person and are not open to deviation (doesn"t allow for other information that may be important)
