comm 301

What creates a continuous or sequential record of what was observed?

field notes

What is most effective when the interviewer can draw on terminology, issues, and themes?

field interviewing

What is best described as the holistic description of interactants in their cultural or subcultural environment?

ethnography

What "is a series of questions to help the facilitator prompt participant interaction"?

focus-group schedule

What are "stories people tell as a way of knowing, understanding, and explaining their lives"?

narratives

What "is autobiographical; the researcher is also a participant" … and "is highly personal and emotional"?

autoethnography

What are "those events in an individual's life that stands out as being memorable, positively or negatively"?

critical incidents

What are a "theoretically driven method … in which researchers focus on language or speech communities" to learn "how symbolic practices are expressed"?

ethnography of communication

What is a facilitator-led group discussion that encourages participants to interact with one another?

focus group

What is a "meaningful list of questions" that directs "the researcher of which topics to cover"?

interview guide

p-value

support a stat was not a result of chance

correlation

ranges from .00 to .99 and indicates the strength of a bivariate relationship

regression

creates predictor models to determine variables may predict levels

intersubjectivity

the social accomplishment of how people co-construct and co-experience their social life

mutual simultaneous shaping

everything influences everything; process and holistic frame

inductive analysis

specific to general

triangulation

use of several kinds of methods or data to enhance credibility

snowball sampling

participants for referrals

purposive sampling

seek individuals who meet criteria

maximum variation sampling

seek participants until data is redundant