ARAŞTIRMA YÖNTEMLERİ - Deneme Sınavı - 11

Some common research objectives identified in various mixed researches can be stated as ‘exploration, description, explanation, prediction, influence. The first type of research objective, exploration, comprises inductive methods to figure out an opinion, argument and the like. In this way, it brings about intuition, hypotheses, deductions or generalization. Description, the second type, means clarifying and defining the previous experiences, relations, and the nature of the incident. One should develop or broaden a theory to achieve ‘explanation’ to find out the phenomena. Another type of research, prediction, enables the researcher to predict future events by means of previous knowledge. The fifth type of objective, influence, includes ‘the manipulation of a variable or construct’ so as to achieve an outcome. The correct answer is A.

In nested sampling, sample members selected for one phase of the study represent a subset of those sample members selected for the previous phase of the research. The correct answer is B.

Since the closed-ended Likert-type questionnaire (Quantitative strand) is the ultimate aim, and the initial interviews and open-ended surveys (two Qualitative strands) serve as means to construct questionnaire items, the QUANTITATIVE study has dominant status. The correct answer is C.

Exploratory designs involve:

Choice E, i.e. “conducting qualitative and quantitative research concurrently” along with “analysing the qualitative and quantitative data separately” is a feature of Convergent design. The correct answer is E.

Four major types of interview, informal conversation interview, interview guide approach, structured open-ended interview, closed fixed response interview can be outlined. The closed or fixed response interview resembles to a closed-ended questionnaire in which the participant only replies to the researcher’s questions in a fixed form and order. Indeed, the participant is not free to articulate herself/himself. Such a way of interviewing is rote and bothers the participant. Nevertheless, the interview guide approach stands in the middle of the process. The correct answer is D.

A seven-stage conception of the mixed methods data analysis process within the MMR model includes data reduction, data display, data transformation, data correlation, data consolidation, data comparison, and data integration. Data transformation follows the previous stages in a way that quantitative data are transformed into story-like data that can be examined qualitatively which is stated before as ‘qualitized,’ and qualitative data are transformed into numeric codes that can be showed statistically. The correct answer is B.

Multiple phase design is implemented in order to develop, adapt or evaluate programs as multilevel statewide studies. The correct answer is A.

The answer is B.

The answer is D.

The answer is A.

The answer is C.

The answer is C.

The answer is D.

The answer is B.

The answer is E.

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