Kinesiology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Focus Group, Internal Validity, Axiology
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Data: can include transcripts, field notes, observation logs, copies of documents, etc, data are related to concepts, opinions, values, behaviours etc in a social context, not easily reduced to numbers. Logging copies keep master: work with a separate copy. Summarizing the data constrained by paradigm, methodology and method typically uses an __ framework to group the data and look for relationships and meanings inductive: process is conducted during & after data collection. Questions the researcher asks: what is going on, what is emerging, what else do i need to know, how am i going to make sense of this data. In depth examination to provide __ descriptions and understandings: categorize and interpreting the data, eg describing context, participants, classifying results into manageable units for analysis. ____ idea categories that emerge from grouping data: big picture based on repetition of data.