REVIEWER IN PRACTICAL RESEARCH 1

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Qualitative Research – It is primarily an exploratory research

Human – is the primary instrument in conducting a Qualitative Research.

Safer life – Research in undertaken of some importance it has and does for individuals and the society and it
has done discoveries and development in the field of health, technology, nutrition and medicine.

Systematic – This study follows sequential procedures based on valid procedures and principles.

Empirical – This is based on observation and experimentation of theories.

Review of Related Literature – collecting related studies to support new study.

Case Study – studies a person, program or event in a defined time frame.

Ethnography – This is a study of cultural group in a natural setting over a prolonged period of time by
collecting, primarily, observational data.

Content Analysis – This research design calls for a systematic examination of the contents of a particular body
of materials for the purpose of identifying patterns, themes or biases.

Phenomenological Study – studying the underlying meaning of the research participant’s experience.

Focus group interview – method where 6-8 persons participate in the interview together.

Observational Evaluation – this method of data collection that the researcher observes and records both verbal
and non-verbal behavior of a person or group of persons.

Questionnaire – the formal way of gathering facts, data, and opinion through well-constructed instruments
with very clear purpose, directions and print.

Open-ended Questions – questions where the participants are free to write their own words, feelings and
thoughts without limit.

Closed-ended Questions – These are questions which is objective and requires a direct answers of a
participants.

Coding – this procedure where the researcher analyst data and marks segment within the data.

Documents – this data source where this include public documents and private documents.

Audio and Visual Materials – this data source which includes photographs, art objects, videotapes or any form
of sound for relevant themes.

Recursive Abstraction – this collection which summarizes the sets of data, then, further summarizes them, and
so on, resulting in a compact, distilled, easily understood analysis.

Content or Discourse Analysis – data collection which involves counting words or phrases, or coincidences of
tokens within the data, analyses phrases and exchange in conversations.

Biographical/ Autobiographical – it aims to focus on the inner world of the researcher participants such as
asylum seekers, or disaster victims, as related to texts which are examined carefully.

Phenomenology – It aims to investigate the lived experiences of a political detainee or an illegal immigrant, as
well as the significant remarks of the research participants.

Content or Discourse Analysis – qualitative research design are the choice and use of words, as well as
relations of words sources of meaning are the main focus.

Ethnography – If the researcher would like to study the way of life of the Mangyan’s, their folkways and
mores, she will most likely use?

Scientific Findings and Discoveries – is not a likely topic of interest in qualitative research.

Time constraints – weakness of qualitative research can take the form of what
Interview – this personal conversation between two or more people which constitute the target population for
the purpose of collecting information for a research project.

Semi-Structured Interview – this method that the interviewer has a pre-determined set of questions or
schedule but as a researcher you can explore other information.

Structured Interview – this method that there are set of prepared questions that are asked from one
respondents to another, and this is commonly called closed-ended questions.

Unstructured Interview – this method where the researcher uses open-ended questions, giving him the
opportunity to ask questions for clarifications and deeper understanding.

Face-to-face interview – This kind if interview is conducted personally by the researcher and the participants
face to face.

APA style – is the commonly used format of a research.

Content Analysis – This calls for systematic examination of forms of communication to document pattern
objectively.

In-depth Interviewing – This Qualitative Research Method resembles conversations, but with pre-determined
response categories.

Thematic Analysis – this analysis provides a simple interpretation and concise description of themes and
patterns in the data set.

Content Analysis – this procedure that categorize oral or spoken words, or a person’s conduct or behavior,
sorting, grouping, codification, and tabulation.

Qualitative research involves – Non-numerical data

Grounded Theory – This Qualitative design is an attempt to extract general abstract theory of a process, or
interaction grounded in views of research participants.

Sample – is a smaller set of cases a researcher selects from a large group and generalizes to population, what
is this?

Snowballing – This kind of sampling is based on an analogy of a snowball, which begins small but becomes
larger as it is rolled on wet snow and picks up additional snow.

Judgmental Sampling – this sampling procedures that is based on the “expert” judgement of the researcher

Simple Random Sampling – To conduct this kind of sampling procedure, the researcher must have a list of all
members of the population of interest. The sample is drawn so that each person has an equal chance of being
drawn.

Criterion Sampling – This Sampling procedure selection is based on specific characteristics. What probability
sampling procedure is mentioned.

Deviant Case Sampling – seeking cases that differ from the dominant patterns or from the predominant
characteristics of other cases.

Intensity Sampling – The objective of this selection is to sample the same characteristics repetitively.

Homogenous Sampling – this sampling procedure selection of participants is based on similar experiences,
attitudes or outlook.

Maximum Variation Sampling – this sampling procedure selection is to attain more in depth views from a big
number of participants.

Interviews – this data collection that can be conducted face to face, telephone or focus group interviews.

Participants Observation – this method of data collection which demands researcher in immerse in the setting
of the participants.