Hypothesis in qualitative research
To you by sage › forums › default forum › test of hypotheses in qualitative topic contains 4 replies, has 5 voices, and was last updated by marlo manahan 1 month, 3 weeks g 5 posts - 1 through 5 (of 5 total). January 2011 at 11:40 o de can find a very useful tool for the verification of hypotheses in qualitative research into the software .
It is designed to explore an area that can later be hypothesis tested with a quantitative approach (or alternately, it can be used to explore the meanings of quantitative answers in more detail). You will need to convert your qualitative data into categorical data that can be quantified (usually through coding), then use hypothesis test the categorical data.
February 2011 at 1:27 most qualitative researchers don’t like to say ‘test hypotheses’ we all do it in a kind of way. For example, we have a research question (like ‘how do students experience their first year in sociology’).
For example, based on your own experiences you might think that students probably come in with little idea about what the nature of that discipline) so we put a question into the interview around their previous knowledge not because it is logically related to the research question so much as because we think (hypothesise) that it is ing that question about prior views is a kind of ‘hypothesis test’ that will probably need some counting, though typically we would not have big enough numbers to warrant any kind of probability stats. The format for reporting is very different from a classic ‘hypothesis test’, but the underlying action is not!
I was taught by two wonderful researchers (david hickman and lyn richards) that it is very useful to play the classic ‘null hypothesis’ game with qualitative data. You have a pre-existing feeling about the answer to the research question, or during analysis you get a hunch about the data.
Write it down and then make it an opposite- a ‘null hypothesis’ (the classic null hypothesis statement is “there will be no difference between control and experimental groups”. Then ask yourself what data you need to examine to find evidence that will support or disprove the null hypothesis.
There is no simple recipe for ‘hypothesis testing’ with qualitative human mind is an odd beast. I find time after time that when i force myself to say what i think (hypothesis) then state its opposite ‘null hypothesis’ and seek material relating to the null, stuff i had ignored while focussed on the original implicit hypothesis confronts me.
Self- consciously using null hypotheses as a temporary device for dealing with qualitative data is not about becoming a positivist. You are not suddenly becoming a quantitative researcher who believes in ‘objectivity, you are simply looking carefully and systematically at your data and taking your own subjectivity into account as you do so.
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