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A field interview: |
| | A) | is very similar to a survey that a researcher conducts in person or by phone. |
| | B) | is simply a process of asking questions and getting answers. |
| | C) | does not require that the researcher be in the interaction setting with the participants. |
| | D) | has the goal of uncovering the respondent's point of view by drawing on terminology, issues, and themes introduced into the conversation by the respondent. |
| | E) | occurs spontaneously without prior planning by the interviewer. |
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Field interviews are best conducted in pairs so: |
| | A) | that one team member can interview while the other team member takes notes. |
| | B) | that the respondent can choose with whom he or she would like to talk. |
| | C) | both team members can ask questions of the respondent. |
| | D) | the conversation never suffers from silence. |
| | E) | the team members can discuss the respondent's responses in front of the respondent. |
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An interview guide for field interviewing should include: |
| | A) | more closed than open questions. |
| | B) | questions that encourage the respondent to discuss the topic of interest. |
| | C) | questions that discourage storytelling by the respondent. |
| | D) | questions that introduce terminology unfamiliar to the respondent. |
| | E) | questions that will not require further probing or follow-up. |
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A focus group is a facilitator-led group discussion in which the facilitator: |
| | A) | asks questions and respondents take turns answering questions. |
| | B) | talks more than the participants. |
| | C) | encourages participants to interact with one another, not just respond to the researcher's questions. |
| | D) | encourages debate and division among participants. |
| | E) | strives to keep participants from talking to one another. |
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Ideally, participants in a focus group should: |
| | A) | have different backgrounds, but similar attitudes and perspectives. |
| | B) | be randomly selected. |
| | C) | be friends with the focus group moderator. |
| | D) | be given the focus group outline before the session. |
| | E) | have homogenous backgrounds, but dissimilar attitudes and perspectives. |
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The focus group moderator: |
| | A) | may or may not be the researcher. |
| | B) | should be as demographically different as possible from the participants. |
| | C) | needs skills in moderating debates. |
| | D) | should talk to keep silence from developing. |
| | E) | should not encourage participants to talk among themselves. |
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Stories or narratives: |
| | A) | can be a reliable guide to understanding the objective facts of an event. |
| | B) | can be a reliable guide to storytellers' beliefs, attitudes, values, and actions. |
| | C) | must be collected in person from the storyteller. |
| | D) | are composed of many equally important elements. |
| | E) | always reflect a truthful account of the past. |
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Ethnography is best described as research: |
| | A) | conducted from the role of the complete observer. |
| | B) | in which the researcher controls the interaction field. |
| | C) | that relies on surveys, questionnaires, or polls. |
| | D) | that develops an in-depth and holistic description of interactants in their cultural or subcultural environment. |
| | E) | on simulated environments. |
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2001 McGraw-Hill Higher Education